Recombinant poxvirus vaccine against feline rhinotracheitis

ABSTRACT

A recombinant poxvirus vaccine against feline herpesvirus (FHV-1) is described. The recombinant poxviruses include synthetic genes encoding either a gB or gD precursor polypeptide or mixtures of the two recombinant poxviruses. The vaccine is used to provide immunity to FHV-1 in cats.

This application is a continuation of application Ser. No. 08/096,183 filed on Jul. 26, 1993, now abandoned.

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

(1) Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a recombinant poxvirus vaccine against feline herpesvirus type 1 (FHV-1). In particular the present invention relates to a recombinant raccoon poxvirus containing genes encoding a gB and/or gD precursor polypeptide from FHV-1.

(2) Prior Art

Feline viral rhinotracheitis (FVR) is caused by feline herpesvirus-1 (FHV-1). Feline herpesvirus (FHV-1), is a member of the genus alphaherpes virinae. This widespread virus is responsible for 40-45% of all respiratory infections of Felidae (the cat family). Most cats receiving veterinary care are vaccinated against this disease. Several existing modified-live (MLV) and inactivated vaccines (IV) against the disease have either residual virulence (MLV) or suffer from a lack of immunogenicity. Furthermore, none of the existing parenterally administered MLV or IV can protect vaccinated cats from infection with virulent virus (as opposed to the disease) when exposed to it. This automatically leads to latent infections, which are epidemiologically very important because of the ease and frequency by which latent FHV-1 is reactivated and spread by asymptomatic, latently infected carriers.

Several million domesticated cats that are kept as house pets in the U.S. receive annual vaccinations for FVR. The need for an improved vaccine is substantial.

The superior immunogenicity typically achieved with other vaccinia-based recombinants (Blacklaws, B., et al., Virology 177:727-736 (1990)) is an indicator that recombinants could be more effective and safer vaccines than existing preparations.

It has been previously demonstrated that there is a significant host immune response to viral glycoproteins during FHV-1 infection (Maes, R., et al., J. Virology 51:259-262 (1984)). The temporal development of immunity against FHV-1 glycoproteins in cats inoculated with FHV-1 on the oral, nasal and conjunctival mucosa has also been defined. Thus, the concurrent detection of virus-neutralizing antibody and glycoprotein-specific immunoprecipitins implied that FHV-1 glycoproteins were important in the induction of virus-neutralizing antibodies to FHV-1 in cats (Burgener, D. and Maes, R., American J. Vet. Res. 49:1673-1676 (1988); and Rota, P., et al., Virology 154:168-179 (1986)).

Over the last ten years, a large amount of information has accumulated concerning the immunity induced by the glycoproteins of the alphaherpesviruses HSV-1, PRV, EHV-1, MDV and BHV-1 and other herpesviruses (i.e. EBV, HCMV, HVS). The genome of herpes simplex virus-type 1 (HSV-1) codes for at least 10 antigenically distinct glycoproteins: gB, gC, gD, gE, gG, gH, gI, gJ, gK and gL (Spear, P., Glycoproteins specified by herpes simplex viruses. In "The Herpesviruses" (B. Roizman, ED.) Vol. 3 pp 315-356. Plenum, N.Y. (1984); and Hutchinson, L., et al., J. Virology 66: 2240-2250 (1992)). It has been established that these glycoproteins can be classified as either essential or nonessential for replication of the virus. Because of their biological role in virion adsorption and eggression from infected cells, viral glycoproteins are generally conserved throughout related subfamilies. Based on extensive work with HSV-1 and the animal herpesviruses, it has been defined that glycoproteins B and D are major immunogens, eliciting high titers of virus neutralizing (VN) antibodies and providing protective immunity in vaccinated animals against lethal challenge. So far, HSV-1 is the best model for the comparison of the immune response induced by various glycoproteins of a specific herpesvirus (Blacklaw, B., et al., Virology 177:727-736 (1990)). Individual HSV-1 glycoproteins (gB, gD, gH, gI, gE and gG) expressed in vaccinia virus were evaluated for their ability to (1) elicit neutralizing antibody titers, (2) increase the rate of HSV-1 clearance and (3) protect against lethal challenge and latency. Vaccinia recombinants expressing gB and gD were reported to be superior in eliciting high titers of VN-antibodies and full protection from the establishment of latency.

Glycoprotein B homologs have been mapped within the genomes of 14 herpesviruses: herpes simplex virus-1, herpes simplex virus-2, varicella-zoster virus, Epstein-Barr virus, human cytomegalovirus, equine herpesvirus-1, equine herpesvirus-4, bovine herpesvirus-1, bovine herpesvirus-2, pseudorabies virus, Marek's disease virus, herpesvirus saimiri, infectious laryngotracheitis virus and simian agent type 8 virus. This conservation is not surprising since gB, as well as glycoproteins D, H, K and L, have been shown to be essential for production of enveloped viruses (Spear, P., Glycoproteins specified by herpes simplex viruses. In "The Herpesviruses" (B. Roizman, ED.) Vol. 3 pp 315-356. Plenum, N.Y. (1984); Hutchinson, L., et al., J. Virology 66: 2240-2250 (1992); and MacLean, C., et al., J. Gen. Virology 72: 897-906 (1991)).

HSV-1 gB and also the gB homolog of PRV (gII) have been shown to form a dimeric protein on the surface of virions and infected cells. Furthermore, glycoprotein B has been implicated in the penetration of the host cell membrane and also in cell-to-cell spread of virus by fusion. It appears that a homolog gB in FHV-1 acts in the same way.

Glycoprotein D of HSV-1 has also been reported to be essential penetration of the nucleocapsid into susceptible cells (Fuller and Spear, J. of Virology 55:475-482 (1985); Spear et al., Herpes simplex virus:pathway of entry into cells. In "Cell Biology of Virus Entry, Replication and Pathogenesis" pp. 163-175 (1989); Johnson et al., J. of Virology 64: 2569-2576 (1990)). Although genes encoding gD homologs are generally conserved throughout herpesvirinae, VZV and the distal related herpesvirus, channel catfish herpesvirus do not contain gD homologs (Davison, A. and Scott, J., J. Gen. Virology 67: 1759-1816 (1986); Davison, A., Virology 186: 9-14 (1992)). Early studies with monospecific gD antisera or monoclonal antibodies have indicated that gD plays a role in virus penetration and cell fusion (Noble, A., et al., Virology 129: 218-224 (1983)). In one study by (Johnson, D., et al., J. of Virology 62: 4605-4612 (1988)) UV-inactivated (gD+) virions were reported to block the entry of WT-HSV-1 or HSV-2 into cells, whereas UV-inactivated virions which are phenotypically gD- were unable to block WT-HSV-1 or HSV-2 entry. Furthermore, mutant (gD-) virions were shown to be able to adsorb to cellular membranes but could not penetrate into the cells.

Besides their biological significance, these two glycoproteins are the major immunodominant polypeptides of herpesviruses, capable of the induction of protective immunity. Of all the HSV-1 glycoproteins, only antibodies to glycoprotein D and B can crossreact with the two types of simplex viruses (Marchioli, C., et al., J. of Virology 61: 3977-3982 (1987)). It has also been demonstrated that gD of HSV-1 induces the most potent monoclonal antibodies with the highest affinity for the HSV-1 virion (Para, M., et al., J. of Virology 55: 483-487 (1985); Iglesias, G., et al., Vet. Micro. 24: 1-10 (1990)). Furthermore, anti-gD monoclonal antibodies have been routinely generated from animals immunized with crude virion preps of HSV-1.

There is good evidence that glycoprotein B is as important an immunogen as gD. In HCMV seropositive individuals, for example, 40-70% of total virus-neutralizing activity in serum has been reported to be directed against gB (Britt, W., et al., J. of Virology 64: 1079-1085 (1990)). Such a preferential reactivity of human sera for a single virion component is unique, due to the fact herpesviruses contain many glycoproteins.

Both glycoproteins D and B of HSV-1, PRV and EHV-1 have been reported to protect mice from lethal challenge (Long, D., et al., Infection and Immunity 37:761-763 (1984)). In one study, mice immunized with gD, affinity-purified from cells infected with either HSV-1 or HSV-2, were protected from a lethal intraperitoneal (i.p) challenge by virus of either serotype (Eisenberg, R., et al., J. of Virology 56: 1014-1017 (1985)). Similarly, gp50 of pseudorabies virus, the gD homolog in the suid herpesvirus, has be reported to elicit VN-antibodies (Eloit, M., et al., J. of Gen. Virology 71:2425-2431 (1990)) and when expressed in vaccinia virus or Chinese hamster ovary cells, (Marchioli, C., et al. J. of Virology 61: 3977-3982 (1987)) protected immunized mice or rabbits from virulent challenge with PRV. In addition, a recombinant gp50 protects pigs, the natural host, from lethal challenge (Marchioli, C., et al. J. of Virology 61: 3977-3982 (1987); Riviere, M., et al., J. of Virology 66: 3424-3433 (1992)). Likewise, protection of mice immunized with recombinant adenoviruses expressing glycoprotein B of HSV-1, has also been demonstrated. Unlike in gD, correct glycosylation of gB appears to be essential for optimal immunogenicity. Mice immunized with recombinant gB isolated from mammalian cells, produced significantly higher titers of virus-neutralizing antibodies, when compared to animals immunized with recombinant gB isolate from procaryotes. An enhanced level of protection from lethal challenge was also demonstrated in vaccinates receiving the glycosylated (eukaryotic) recombinant polypeptide. In a study by van Drunen littel-van den Hurk, S., et al., J. of Gen. Virology 71: 2053-2063 (1990)), deglycoslyation of gI(gB) of BHV-1 resulted in a significant decrease in the production of serum neutralizing antibodies, due to modifications of three distinct carbohydrate containing continuous epitopes. Likewise, nonglycosylated HCMV gB produced in recombinant prokaryotic systems has been reported to be less immunogenic than the glycosylated protein produced in eukaryotes (Britt, W., et al., J. of Virology 64: 1079-1085 (1990)). In contrast, nonglycosylated forms of glycoprotein D, for example gIV of BHV-1, stimulate neutralizing antibodies at levels similar to those elicited by glycosylated forms. This comes as no surprise, since the nucleotide sequence of gp50 (gD) of PRV lacks potential N-linked glycosylation sites (Petrovskis, E., et al., J. of Virology 59: 216-223 (1986)). Recently, gD of HSV-1 has been expressed at high levels in baculoviruses. Although the recombinant protein was slightly smaller than the gD in HSV-1 infected Vero cells, due to differences in the glycosylation pattern of the two cell lines, the expressed protein was present on the membranes of SF9 cells and reacted with gD specific antibodies. Vaccination with the expressed protein resulted in the production of neutralizing antibodies to HSV-1 and complete protection against lethal HSV-1 challenge (Ghiasi, H., et al., Arch. Virology 121: 163-177 (1991)).

Because of these results, gD and gB of HSV-1 are the prime candidates for a subunit vaccines. The genes encoding gD and gB of various herpesviruses have been expressed in both prokaryotic and mammalian cells. Studies on mammalian cells expressing native and truncated gD polypeptides, along with synthetic peptides and V8 protease digestion products have enabled researchers to map its immunologically important continuous and discontinuous epitopes. Synthetic peptides representing one continuous epitope (amino acids 9-21) of gD(HSV-1) conjugated to ovalbumin or BSA, were reported to elicit high titers of antipeptide neutralizing antibodies in mice after immunization with adjuvants. Resistance to lethal challenge was also demonstrated in synthetic peptide-immunized mice (Eisenberg, R., et al., J. of Virology 56: 1014-1017 (1985)).

From the above, it is clear that humoral immunity to gD and gB appears to be a significant contributor to the clearance of the virus. However, this type of immunity is primarily important during the initial infection. Overall, cell-mediated immunity (CMI) appears to be more important. Not only is it essential in the acute phase of a herpesvirus infection but is also involved in virus clearance following reactivation or reinfection. The importance of CMI in resistance to HSV-1 is apparent by the fact that 80-90% of immunosuppressed patients have a high incidence of recurrence (Bernstein, D., et al., J. of Immunology 146:3571-3577 (1991)). Supporting the role of cell-mediated immunity are numerous reports of adoptive transfer experiments, conferring resistance to lethal HSV challenge. In a study by (Rooney, J., et al., J. of Virology 62: 1530-1534 (1988)), vaccinia recombinants containing the gD(HSV-1) gene under the control of an early vaccinia promoter were reported to elicit a better T-cell response than recombinants in which gD expression is controlled by a late vaccinia promoter. Both recombinant viruses produced potent neutralizing antibodies and protected immunized mice from both lethal HSV-1 challenge and latency establishment by the challenge virus for at least 6 weeks after immunization (Rooney, J., et al., J. of Virology 62: 1530-1534 (1988); Wachsman, M., et al., J. Gen. Virology 70:2513-2520 (1989); Wachsman, M., et al., J. of Inf. Dis. 159: 625-634 (1989)). However, reimmunization with the recombinants containing the early vaccinia promoter/gD construct resulted in a significant increase in neutralizing antibody titers lasting over 1 year. Vaccinia recombinants containing the late vaccinia promoter/gD gene fusion failed to protect from cutaneous disease following administration of a high dose of HSV-1. Protection against cutaneous lesions is associated with the induction of HSV-1 specific T-cell responses. Furthermore, proliferation of lymph node cells in response to HSV-1 antigens was demonstrated only in mice immunized with the Vac(early promoter)/gD- and not Vac(late promoter)/gD-constructs. It appears that temporal expression of glycoprotein genes in antigen presenting cells is important in the induction of immunity to herpes viral disease (Wachsman, M., et al., (1989)).

Additional evidence for the role of these glycoproteins in cell-mediated immunity response comes from studies involving immunized mice transplanted with cells expressing herpesvirus glycoproteins. Nakagama, H., et al., FASEB J. 5: 104-108 (1991) reported significant differences in lymphocyte infiltration and antigen clearance in syngeneic unimmunized mice, transplanted with (HSV-1) gD-transfected BALB/3T3 cells, as compared to mice immunized with HSV-1. In the later case, the transfected cells elicited massive lymphocyte infiltration of mainly THY1+ and CD8+ lymphocytes along with a small number of CD5+, CD4+, and B-lymphocytes in the HSV-1- immunized mice. In contrast, in unimmunized mice, little evidence of cellular infiltration could be detected and transplanted cells could be detected for as long as 7 days. In immunized animals however, the transplanted cells were mostly destroyed by day 4, despite the presence of anti-HSV-1 antibodies at the time of transplantation. Likewise, cells from the spleen and lymph nodes of gB-immunized mice have been reported to protect syngeneic mice against lethal challenge.

It is generally believed that reactivation of latent herpesvirus occurs more frequently than episodes of recurrent disease. Administration of gD or gB to latently infected animals, reduces the frequency of reactivation, the severity of recurrent disease and the duration of shedding (Bernstein, D., et al., J. of Immunology 146: 3571-3577 (1991)). In guinea pigs latently infected with HSV-2, the adoptive transfer of clones expressing either glycoprotein D or B, significantly reduced the number and severity of subsequent symptomatic recurrent infections with a concomitant reduction in cervicovaginal HSV-2 shedding. In this study the author concluded that the reduction in clinical disease was the result of lymphokine activated cellular immunity in which the transfer of HSV-1 gD or gB into latently infected animals resulted in the production of other cytokines by HSV-1 sensitized T-cells. This could further increase critical responses, such as natural killer cells, needed for the clearance of the reactivated virus. Further evidence for the involvement of lymphokine activity in CMI elicited by herpesvirus glycoproteins was provided by (Zarling, J., et al., J. of Immunology 136: 4669-4673 (1986)). Administration of gD or gB, expressed in mammalian cells to HSV-1 seropositive individuals stimulated proliferation of their peripheral blood lymphocytes and interleukin-2 production by these cells. Interestingly, IL-2 can also significantly enhance cellular and humoral immunity in cows when included in either a gD subunit or MLV-vaccine (Reddy, P., et al., Vet. Immuno. Immunopath. 23: 62-74 (1989); Hughes, H., et al., Immunology 74:461-466 (1991)). Likewise, high antibody responses and cell mediated immunity to HSV-1 were recently reported in mice immunized with a recombinant expressing a glycoprotein D/Interleukin-2 fusion protein (Hinuma, S., et al., FEBS 288, 138-142 (1991)).

Objects

It is an object of the present invention to provide an approach for vaccination of cats against feline herpesvirus type 1 (FHV-1) using a recombinant vaccine that corrects the shortcomings of currently available commercial vaccines which lack immunogenicity, have an inability to prevent infection, have adjuvant induced side effects, have a potential reversion to virulence, or have a residual virulence.

It is further an object of the present invention to provide the recombinant viral vaccines expressing a single FHV-1 viral glycoprotein or two (2) glycoproteins.

It is further an object to provide novel live recombinant vaccines which express gB and gD of FHV-1 in a recombinant poxvirus vector that is safe for use in cats and which provides immunogenicity in cats.

It is particularly an object to provide recombinant raccoon poxviruses expressing the FHV-1 gB and/or gD genes.

Further, it is an object to immunize cats with recombinant raccoon poxviruses, which when exposed to virulent FHV-1, provide superior protection against clinical signs and shedding of the virulent virus.

These and other objects will become increasingly apparent by reference to the following description and the drawings.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

FIGS. 1A and 1B show the results of low stringency hybridization experiments with HSV-1 (gB)-specific probes and blotted FHV-1 DNA. (FIG. 1A) the position of the XhoI-NcoI restriction sites within the genes encoding HSV-1 gB. (FIG. 1B) Southern blots containing restriction digested DNA isolated from a recombinant clone containing SalI fragment G (lanes 1-2) and FHV-1 infected CRFk's (lanes 3-12. Prior to electrophoresis the DNA was digested with the following restriction endonucleases: HindIII (lane 1) SalI (lane 2), BamHI (lane 3), EcoRI (lane 4), HindIII (lane 5), KpnI (lane 6), NcoI (lane 7), PstI (lane 8), XhoI (lane 9), XbaI (lane 10), SacI (lane 11) and EcoRV (lane 12).

FIGS. 2A, 2B and 2C show the genomic organization of the FHV-1 including the glycoprotein B gene. FIG. 2A shows the 134 Kb genome is represented as two unique sequences (U_(L) and U_(S)) and two inverted repeat sequences (IR_(S) and TR_(S)) flanking the U_(S) region. FIG. 2B shows the SalI restriction map of FHV-1 (C-27) and a detailed restriction map of the 9.6 Kb SalI G fragment. Arrows indicate the location of the gB and ICP18.5 ORFs within the region sequenced. FIG. 2C shows the black boxes represent the gB-specific hybridization probes used to map the gB transcript.

FIGS. 3A and 3B show the nucleotide sequence and predicted amino acid sequence of the FHV-1 gB polypeptide and part of the FHV-1 gene product analogous to ICP18.5. Putative CAT (ATTG), TATA (AATATATC) boxes and poly(A) signal sequence (AATAAA) are shown in bold. Potential N-glycosylation sites are bracketed by two lines and the predicted hydrophobic N-terminal signal peptide and C-terminal transmembrane domain are overlined. Potential proteolytic cleavage recognition sites are indicated with asterisks.

FIGS. 4A and 4B show analyses of FHV-1 B polypeptides. FIG. 4A shows lysates from FHV-1 infected cells (lanes 1 and 4), lysates from FHV-1 virions (lanes 2 and 5) and lysates from mock-infected cells (lanes 3 and 6) were immunoprecipitated with monospecific polyclonal HSV-1 gB specific antisera R69 (lanes 1-3) and anti-gB1 (lanes 4-6). FIG. 4B shows the results of lysates from FHV-1 virions electroblotted onto nitrocellulose and probed with R69 (lane 1) and anti-gB1 (lane 2).

FIG. 5 shows hydrophilicity plot of the predicted gB protein. The hydropathy value was calculated by the methods of Kyte and Doolittle (Kyte, J. and Doolittle, R., J. of Molecular Biology 157:105-131 (1982)). The hydropathy window was seven amino acids, with a plus sign indicating increasing hydrophilicity and a minus sign representing increasing hydrophobicity.

FIG. 6 shows northern blot analysis of RNA extracted from FHV-1 infected CRFK cells. Total cytoplasmic RNA was isolated from uninfected and FHV-1 infected cells. The RNA was fractionated in an agarose-formaldehyde gel, transferred to nitrocellulose paper and hybridized with ³² P-labeled probes (FIG. 1C). Lanes: 1-4, RNA extracted from FHV-1 infected cells; 5, RNA extracted from uninfected cells. The blots in lanes 1, 2, 3 and 4 were hybridized with ³² P-labeled fragment A (SalI-EcoRI, 4.0 Kb), B (EcoRI-KpnI, 1.6 Kb), C (BamHI-EcoRI, 3.0 Kb) and D (KpnI-EcoRI, 3.1 Kb), respectively. The blot in lane 5 was hybridized with the 9.6 Kb SalI G fragment.

FIG. 7 show the evolutionary relatedness of FHV-1 to eleven other alphaherpesviruses. Amino acid sequences of glycoprotein B, the most conserved glycoprotein in all subfamilies of herpesvirinae, were analyzed for homology and aligned using the GAP and PILEUP programs of the University of Wisconsin (UWGCG) (Devereux, J., and Grinyer, I., Nucleic Acid Research 12: 387-395 (1984)). Dendrograms were drawn using the Phylogeny Interference Package (PHYLIP) (Felsenstein, J., Evolution 39: 783-791 (1985)).

FIGS. 8A, 8B, 8C, and 8D show the genomic organization of the FHV-1 unique short genes encoding a putative protein kinase and glycoproteins gG, gD, gI, and gE. FIG. 8A shows the 134 Kb genome is represented as two unique sequences (U_(L) and U_(S)) and two inverted repeat sequences (IR_(S) and TR_(S)) flanking the U_(S) region. FIG. 8B shows the SalI and EcoRI restriction maps of FHV-1 (C-27). FIG. 8C shows a detailed restriction map of the unique short region along with the positions and transcriptional directions of the genes encoding the putative Pk, gG, gD, gI and gE. FIG. 8D shows the black boxes (1-6) representing the hybridization probes used to map the U_(S) transcripts.

FIGS. 9A to 9E show the nucleotide sequence and predicted amino acid sequences of the FHV-1 polypeptides, gG, gD, gI and gE and part of the putative threonine/serine protein kinase. Cis-acting sites (CAAT, TATA) boxes and polyadenylation sites are shown in bold. Potential N-linked glycosylation sites are bracketed by two lines. Direct repeats of the sequence GGG GCT GTG GGG ACG A are indicated with a partitionary line.

FIG. 10 shows hydrophilicity plot of the predicted gD protein. The hydropathy value was calculated by the methods of Kyte and Doolittle (Kyte, J. and Doolittle, R., J. of Molecular Biology 157:105-131 (1982)). The hydropathy window was nine amino acids, with a plus sign indicating increasing hydrophobicity and a minus sign representing increasing hydrophilicity.

FIG. 11 shows northern blot analyses of RNA extracted from FHV-1 infected CRFK cells and hybridized with probes representative of the U_(S) glycoprotein genes. Total cytoplasmic RNA isolated from FHV-1 infected cells was separated in agarose/formaldehyde as described in methods. Strips blots were hybridized with radiolabeled restriction fragments as depicted in FIG. 8,D. Blots 1-6 were probed with the following restriction fragments: Blot 1, 0.16 Kb TaqI-TaqI (gG-specific), Blot 2, 2.3 Kb EcoRI-EcoRV (Pk/gG/gD-specific), Blot 3, 0.42 Kb RsaI-RsaI (gD-specific), Blot 4, 2.0 Kb EcoRV-EcoRI (gD/gI-specific), Blot 5, 0.85 Kb XhoI-EcoRI (gI-specific) and Blot 6, 1.8 Kb EcoRI-SalI (gI/gE specific).

FIGS. 12A and 12B show the results of the PCR-amplified gB and gD products. Presented are a photographs of an EtBr-stained agarose gel containing electrophoretically separated fragments from the amplification of 1.14 Kb gD and 2.8 Kb gB: (FIG. 12A) lanes 1-3 and (FIG. 12B) lanes 1-3, respectively. Molecular weight standards are in lanes 4 (A and B).

FIGS. 13A and 13B show restriction analysis of the gD PCR-product. (FIG. 13A) Computer-predicted restriction maps based on nucleotide sequencing of the gD gene. (FIG. 13B) Visualization of an agarose gel containing restriction endonuclease digested PCR-products. Prior to electrophoresis, these products were digested with the following enzymes: BamHI (lane 1), EcoRI (lane 2), ClaI (lane 3), SacI (lane 4) and KpnI (lane 5).

FIGS. 14A and 14B show the constructs of the recombinants plasmids pKGgD and pKGgB. Recombinants were generated via cloning restriction digested PCR-amplified products into the donor plasmid pKG19. Relative restriction sites are indicated along with the molecular size of each construct.

FIG. 15 shows the results of restriction analysis of the recombinant plasmid, pKGgD. Visualization of an EtBr-stained agarose gel containing digested recombinant plasmid, pKGgD. Prior to electrophoresis, the recombinant DNA was digested with restriction endonucleases XhoI and EcoRI (lanes 1-6; MW standard, lane 7).

FIGS. 16A and 16D show the results of restriction analysis of the recombinant donor plasmids, pKGgB and pKGrgB. Restriction endonuclease analyses of the PCR-amplified FHV-1 gB gene cloned into the donor plasmid pKG19. Recombinant plasmid (FIGS. 16A, 16C) pKGgB, contained an insert in the correct orientation with respect to the Vac P₇.5 promoter. The control plasmid (FIGS. 16B, 16D) pKGrgB, contained and inverted insert. Computer-generated restriction maps of the recombinant plasmids are shown with photographs of an EtBr-stained agarose gel containing electrophoretically separated fragments of the constructs.

FIGS. 17A, 17B, 17C, 17D, 17E and 17F show the results of the indirect fluorescence antibody assay of gB and gD synthesized in vaccinia or raccoon poxviruses infected Rat-2 cells. Photographs (FIGS. 17A-C) represent cells infected with Vaccinia virus and then transfected with DNA from plasmids; pKggB (FIG. 17A), pKGgD (FIG. 17B) and pKGrgB (FIG. 17C). Photographs (FIGS. 17D-F) represent cells infected with Raccoon poxvirus and then transfected with pKGgB (FIG. 17D), pKGgD (FIG. 17E),and pKGrgB (FIG. 17F). Fixed cells were treated with a rabbit anti-FHV-1 antibody, followed by a fluorescein isothiocyanate conjugated goat anti-rabbit antibody. The magnification was 250×.

FIG. 18 shows the results of western blot analyses of FHV-1 polypeptides with rabbit antisera against the vaccinia recombinants VVgB and VVgD. Denatured purified virions were separated using SDS-PAGE and electrophoretically transferred to Nytran. Rabbit anti-VVgB and anti-VVgD sera were used to probe blots A and B, respectively. A rabbit anti-FHV-1 sera was used to probe blot C. Mouse anti-rabbit alkaline phosphatase labelled conjugates were used as the report antibody.

DESCRIPTION OF PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS

The present invention relates to a recombinant poxvirus containing foreign genes from a feline herpesvirus encoding a glycoprotein selected from the group consisting of gB as set forth in Seq ID NO:1, gD as set forth in Seq ID NO:2 and mixtures thereof which are expressed by the poxvirus. Preferably the poxvirus is raccoon poxvirus.

Further, the present invention relates to a method for vaccination against feline viral rhinotracheitis (FVR) in felines which comprises: vaccinating the feline with a recombinant poxvirus containing foreign genes from a feline herpesvirus encoding a glycoprotein precursor polypeptide selected from the group consisting of a gB precursor polypeptide as set forth in Seq ID NO:1, a gD precursor polypeptide as set forth in Seq ID NO:2 and mixtures thereof which are expressed by the poxvirus to inhibit the FVR.

Further still, the present invention relates to a purified and isolated polynucleotide having a DNA sequence comprising a 3.3 Kb SacI subfragment of a 9.6 Kb SalI G fragment of the feline herpesvirus genome which encodes gB.

Further still, the present invention relates to a purified and isolated polynucleotide having a DNA sequence comprising a 1.5 Kb subunit of a restriction fragment of a 4.3 Kb EcoRI-EcoRI restriction fragment of the Us region of the feline herpesvirus genome encoding a gD precursor polypeptide.

Further still, the present invention relates to a method for producing a synthetic gene encoding a gB precursor polypeptide as set forth in Seq ID NO:1 which comprises: amplifying the FHV-1 DNA using PCR with oligonucleotides containing XhoI recognition sequences; providing a purified and isolated DNA encoding a gB precursor polypeptide with two XhoI DNA recognition sequences; digesting the amplified DNA with XhoI to produce the synthetic gene; and cloning the synthetic gene into the donor plasmid, pKG19.

Further still, the present invention relates to a method for producing a synthetic gene encoding a gD precursor polypeptide as set forth in Seq ID NO: 2 which comprises: amplifying the FHV-1 DNA using PCR with oligonucleotides containing XhoI and EcoRI recognition sequences; digesting the amplified DNA with XhoI and EcoRI to produce the synthetic gene; and cloning the synthetic gene into the donor plasmid, pKG19.

Finally, the present invention relates to a vaccine which comprises: a recombinant poxvirus containing foreign genes from a feline herpesvirus encoding a glycoprotein precursor polypeptide selected from the group consisting of a gB precursor polypeptide as set forth in Seq ID NO:1, a gD precursor polypeptide as set forth in Seq ID NO:2 and mixtures thereof which are expressed by the poxvirus. The DNA sequences for the precursor polypeptides are shown in FIGS. 3 and 9.

The vaccine is intended to be given orally, intranasally or intramuscularly. Oral and intradermal administration of the vaccine is preferred due to stimulation of local immunity. However, subcutaneous (SC) injections are recommended for cats from multiple cat households since the virus is contained within the tissue of the cat and thus is not likely to be shed.

The vaccine preferably contains between about 10⁵ and 10⁷ PFU of the poxvirus per dosage unit. Higher or lower amounts can be used depending upon the antigenicity of the vaccine.

The raccoon poxvirus is the preferred vector for the FHV-1 gB and gD DNA. Another vector which can be used is vaccinia virus.

HSV-1 gB and gD and have been identified and both genes encoding the polypeptide precursors have been completely sequenced (McGeoch, D., et al., J. Mol. Biol. 181:1-13 (1985); McGeoch, D., et al., J. Gen. Virology 69:1531-1551 (1988)). There is clear evidence that HSV-1 gB and gD induce both humoral antibodies and CMI (cell mediated immunity) responses.

Like other alphaherpesviruses, FHV-1 contains homologs to glycoproteins B (gB) and D (gD) of HSV-1. In this invention, HSV-1 gB monospecific antisera reacted positively with three FHV-1 proteins (100, 64 and 58 Kd) from virion lysates using immunoprecipitation and immunoblot analyses. Reduced stringency hybridization experiments using a HSV-1 gB probe localized the FHV-1 gB gene to a 9.6 Kb SalI fragment in the unique long region of the genome. Northern analyses further localized the entire coding region within a 3.3 Kd SacI subfragment. This fragment was sequenced and analyzed for open reading frames as shown in FIGS. 3A and 3B. The predicted amino acid sequence of the 2,829 bp. ORF was shown to have a high degree of homology with gB analogs of HSV-1, EHV-1, BHV-1, EHV-4, and especially PRV. Two proteolytic cleavage sites RTRRS and RSRRS were also present in the predicted translation product. An evolutionary tree based on gB homologs from 12 alphaherpesviruses suggest Feline herpesvirus-1 evolved along similar lines as equine herpesvirus and pseudorabies.

In this intention, the gene encoding the feline herpesvirus type 1 glycoprotein D precursor polypeptide was identified by nucleotide sequencing a 6.2 Kb portion of the unique short region of FHV-1. Analyses of this sequence has revealed 5 open reading frames capable of encoding homologs to HSV-1 protein kinase and glycoproteins gG, gD, gI and gE. Hydropathic analysis of the predicted amino acid translation product from the gD gene of FHV-1 has shown that FHV-1 glycoprotein D exhibits features typical of a membrane-bound glycoprotein: a hydrophobic signal sequence at the amino-terminus, four potential N-linked glycosylation sites and a hydrophobic transmembrane domain near the carboxyl-terminus. The predicted translation product of the gD gene was also shown to have a high degree of homology with gD analogs of related alphaherpesviruses of the genus Varicellovirus. Northern analysis of RNA isolated from FHV-1 infected cells has indicated the presence of two gD transcripts. ³² P-labelled DNA probes specific for the gD gene detected two major transcripts of 3.5 and 1.8 kilobases. It is proposed that the 1.8 Kb transcript represents the monocistronic transcripts encoding the gD precursor polypeptide. The larger 3.5 Kb transcript represents an overlapping transcript originating at the gD promoter and terminating at the polyadenylation site of the downstream gene. This transcriptional pattern is in agreement with the fact that no polyadenylation site was found immediately 3' of the gD open reading frame.

In this invention, glycoproteins B and D of FHV-1 were expressed in raccoon poxviruses and vaccinia viruses generating live vaccines against feline rhinotracheitis. To accomplish this, the FHV-1 gB and gD genes were amplified using PCR, digested with the appropriate restriction endonucleases and cloned into a donor plasmid containing the right and left termini of the vaccinia thymidine kinase gene. Rescue of these constructs into the genome of either raccoon or vaccinia poxviruses generated recombinants that reacted with rabbit anti-FHV-1 serum in an indirect fluorescent antibody test. High titers of virus neutralizing antibodies were generated in rabbits inoculated with vaccinia recombinants expressing either FHV-1 gB or gD. Antisera against the vaccinia recombinants reacted with their respective polypeptides (60 Kd, gB and 50 Kd, gD) on western blots containing FHV-1 viral polypeptides.

EXAMPLE 1

The aim of this example was to immunologically define the existence of an FHV-1 gB homolog, to map its genomic location and to define its nucleotide sequence. To accomplish this radiolabeled plasmids containing the 5' terminus of the HSV-1 gB gene were used to probe southern blots containing cloned fragment of FHV-1 DNA. The coding region of the FHV-1 gB homolog was localized within a 3.3 Kb SacI fragment in the unique long region of the FHV-1 genome. Two different rabbit antisera to HSV-1 gB reacted strongly with a 64 and 58 Kd and more faintly with a 100 Kd FHV-1 protein from virion lysates in immunoprecipitation and western blot analyses. The nucleotide sequence of FHV-1 gB is described along with immunoblot and immunoprecipitation analyses of FHV-1 polypeptides crossreacting with anti-HSV-1 gB antisera.

Material and Methods

Bacterial strains and vectors

Escherichia coli JM101 and JM109 available upon request from Michigan State University, East Lansing, Mich. were grown in LB medium and used to propagate pBluescript-KS (Stratagene, La Jolla, Calif.) and M13, series mp18 and mp19 (BRL, Gaithersburg, Md.).

Viruses, cells, and medium.

FHV-1 strain (C-27) was obtained from the American Type Culture Collection (ATCC VR 636 which is well known to those skilled in the art and is publicly available). Crandell Reese Feline Kidney (CRFK) cells were grown in Dulbecco's modified Eagle Medium, containing 10% heat-inactivated fetal bovine serum. The Crandell Reese Feline Kidney (CRFK) cells were infected with plaque-purified virions as described previously (Maes, R., et al., J. Virology 51:259-262 (1984)).

In-Vitro Labelling and Immunoprecipitation of FHV-1 Infected Cells

Radiolabelling and immunoprecipitation were performed as previously described (Maes, R., et al., J. Virology 51:259-262 (1984)). Briefly, cytoplasmic extracts were prepared in 1× PBS containing 1.0% Triton X-100, 0.5% sodium deoxycholate, and 0.1% SDS (PLB). Virion lysates were prepared from virions purified through 30% potassium tartrate cushions. Monospecific rabbit anti-HSV-1 gB sera (gB1 and R69) were obtained from Drs. N. Balachandran, Kansas State University and R. Eisenberg, University of Pennsylvania, respectively and are freely from these sources.

Western Blot Analyses

FHV-1 virions from infected CRFK cells were purified by rate zonal centrifugation through 10 to 40% potassium tartrate gradients (Talens, L. and Zee, Y., Proc. Soc. Exp. Biol. Med. 151: 132-135 (1976)). The resulting polypeptides were separated by SDS-PAGE. Immunoblotting was done according to procedures described by Ausubel et al., (Ausubel, F., et al., Current Protocols in Molecular Biology, John Wiley and Sons, New York (1988)), except that 5.0% low fat milk powder was substituted for the 3.0% BSA in all the washing solutions.

Recombinant DNA Methods

Recombinant plasmid containing the complete HSV-1 gB coding domain pST11 was kindly provided by Drs. Stanley Person (Pennsylvania State University) and are freely available upon request. The external coding domain of HSV-1 gB was excised from the plasmid pST11 as a NcoI-XhoI fragment, radiolabelled and used extensively as a probe in reduced-stringency hybridizations with blots containing cloned restriction fragments of FHV-1. Individual strip blots were hybridized at 45° C. in standard hybridization solution containing no formamide and washed under stringent conditions.

RNA Isolation and Northern Analyses

Total cellular RNA was extracted using the guanidinium isothiocyanate procedure (Ausubel et al., Current Protocols in Molecular Biology, John Wiley and Sons, New York (1988)). from mock infected or FHV-1 infected CRFK cells at a m.o.i. of >1.0 pfu/cell at 10 hours post-infection. Ten micrograms of RNA were electrophoresed in 1.2% formaldehyde gels, passively transferred to nitrocellulose and hybridized with radiolabeled probes.

DNA Isolation

Viral DNA was prepared as described previously (Rota, P., et al., Virology 154:168-179 (1986)). Plasmid DNA was isolated from bacteria by the alkaline lysis method (Sambrook, J., et al., Molecular Cloning: A Laboratory Manual. Vol. II Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y.: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (1989)). Single stranded DNA from M13 phage was isolated by pelleting the virions through a cushion containing 25% PEG in 3M NaCl. The pellets were then resuspended in TES buffer (20 mM Tris-HCI, pH 7.5, 20 mM NaCl, 1 mM EDTA) and lysed with equal volumes of water saturated phenol. The DNA was recovered after precipitation with sodium acetate and ethanol (Ausubel et al., 1988, cited above). Nucleic acid sequencing was performed by the dideoxy chain termination method (Sanger, F., et al., Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, U.S.A. 74, 5463-5467 (1977)) with the modified T7 DNA polymerase, Sequenase (US Biochemicals, Cleveland, Ohio) and with ³⁵ S dATP (New England Nuclear, Boston, Mass.) as the label. The analog deoxyinosine triphosphate (dITP) was often substituted for dGTP to minimize band compression. In most cases, single stranded M13 DNA was sequenced, but on occasion sodium hydroxide denatured double stranded Bluescript DNA was also used. Synthetic primers, along with the universal and reverse primers of M13 were used to rapidly generate sequencing data. The oligonucleotides used were synthesized on a 380B Applied Biosystems automated DNA synthesizer (Applied Biosystems, Foster City, Calif.) with a three column upgrade. Electrophoretically separated sequencing reaction products were visualized by autoradiography of dried 8% acrylamide/7 M urea gels using Kodak X-AR (Rochester, N.Y.) film. The sequences of both strands of viral DNA were determined at least twice from individual clones.

Computer Analyses of the DNA Sequence

DNA sequence management was performed on a VAX computer using versions 5.0 and 5.3 of the University of Wisconsin package (UWGCG, Madison, Wis.), (Deverex, J., et al., Nucleic Acids Research 12, 387-395 (1984)). Secondary structures of the predicted peptide were investigated using the methods of Chou and Fasman (Chou, P. and Fasman, G., Empirical predictions of protein conformation. Annual Review of Biochemistry 47: 251-275 (1978)). Graphic hydrophilicity analyses were generated by the method of Kyte and Doolittle (Kyte, J. and Doolittle, R., J. of Molecular Biology 157: 105-131 (1982)). Evolutionary relatedness of 12 alphaherpesviruses was analyzed using a multiple alignment of gB homologs generated by the LINEUP and PILEUP programs (UWGCG, Madison, Wis.). The TOFITCH program was used to make the infile for the Phylogeny Inference Package (PHYLIP), version 3.2 (Felsenstein, J., Evolution 39: 783-791 (1985)).

Results

Characterization of the FHV-1 gB protein

Initial evidence for a HSV-1 homolog of glycoprotein B consisted of detecting FHV-1 proteins by immunoprecipitation of lysates from infected cells and virion lysates with monospecific antisera to HSV-1 gB (anti-gB1 and R69). Immunoprecipitation of FHV-1 infected cells with either R69 or anti-gB1 sera indicated the presence of cross-reactive proteins with MW's of 120, 100, 64, 58, and 56 Kd. When virion lysates were immunoprecipitated with either antisera, two proteins of 64 and 58 Kd were detected. A third protein of 100 Kd was also detected on overexposed autoradiographs. It is noteworthy that the 100, 64 and 58 Kd proteins were immunoprecipitated exclusively from virion lysates while the 56 Kd protein was immunoprecipitated when infected cellular lysates were used.

Western blot analyses provided additional evidence that FHV-1 contains a gB homolog. FHV-1 proteins from KT-gradient purified virions were separated on denaturing gels and electroblotted onto nylon membranes. After incubation with either R69 or anti-gB1, three peptides with MW's of 100 (range 99-100), 64 (range 62-66) and 58 (range 60-57) Kd could be detected with ¹²⁵ I protein A.

Identification and sequence analysis of the FHV-1 gB gene

Evidence for a FHV-1 glycoprotein B gene initially came from southern analyses showing that a HSV-1 gB probe specific for the 5' end of the gene hybridized to an EMBL3/FHV-1 recombinant containing the 9.6 Kb SalI G fragment (FIG. 1). Southern analyses of FHV-1 DNA further localized the gene to a 3.3 Kb SacI subfragment of the larger SalI G clone. The nucleotide of this 3.3 Kb subfragment was then determined and analyzed for open reading frames containing amino acid stretches with similarity to gB homologs of other herpesviruses. These analyses (FIGS. 3A and 3B) revealed two overlapping open reading frames, coding for the glycoprotein B and ICP18.5 genes. An ORF of 2,829 nucleotides capable of encoding a gB translation product of 943 amino acids was identified and contained a TATA box (AATATATC), 148 nucleotides upstream of the initiation codon ATG. The sequence ATTG was also found approximately 113 base pairs 5' of the TATA box. This sequence may function as a CAAT box as speculated for HSV-1 gB and PRV gII (Hammerschmidt, W., et al., Virology 165: 406-418 (1988); and Robbins, A., et al., J. Virology 61: 2691-2701 (1987)). A potential Sp1 binding site, GGCGG was also found next to the CAT box (Gidoni, D., et al., Nature 12, 409-413 (1984)). Downstream of the ORF are two potential cis-acting elements. A polyadenylation signal, (AATAAA) was found 46 nucleotides downstream from the termination codon TAA and was followed by GT-rich sequences. Such GT-rich regions are similarly associated with many known RNA cleavage and polyadenylation sites (Birnstiel, M., et al., Cell 41: 349-358 (1985)).

An ORF encoding a polypeptide with homology to ICP18.5 of HSV-1 (UL28) was found to overlap the FHV-1 gB gene by 48 codons. A similar gene overlap has been reported for PRV, BHV-1, HVS, EHV-1, ILTV, EBV and EHV-4. ICP18.5 has been reported to be a nuclear protein and may be involved in capsid maturation (Pederson, N., et al., J. Virol. 65: 3746-3758 (1991); and Addison, C., et al., J. Gen. Virol. 71: 2377-2384 (1990)). Since no obvious polyadenylation signal was found 3' to the FHV-1 ICP18.5 ORF, the 3' terminus of this transcript may be coterminal with that of the gB mRNA.

Amino acid sequence and secondary structure of gB (FHV-1)

Hydrophilicity analyses of the 943 amino acid FHV-1 gB translation product indicated the presence of a hydrophilic surface domain at the amino terminus with 7 potential glycosylation sites. Two hydrophobic domains were also predicted at both ends of the polypeptide. A signal cleavage site (residues 58 to 66) consisting of 9 consecutive hydrophobic residues, FIWIVLFLV, followed by a helix-breaking residue glycine was found near the amino-terminus. This hydrophobic core was preceded by a region of positively charged arginine residues. Chou and Fasman analyses showed that the cleavage site is followed by a beta-turn (data not shown). Hydrophilicity plots (FIG. 5) also indicated a second hydrophobic domain (residues 758 to 827) located at the COOH-terminus). Three distinct hydrophobic peaks in this area fulfill the criteria for a transmembrane region. Three similar peaks have been reported in the corresponding regions of gB homologs of other herpesviruses. Based on Chou and Fasman analyses, this transmembrane domain was predicted to contain three antiparallel hydrophobic segments. Each segment, connected to the others by very short turn regions, transverses the membrane three times and provides the anchoring sequence for glycoprotein B.

A putative cytoplasmic domain (residues 828-911), characterized by a high hydrophilicity value, was predicted at the carboxyl-terminus and is typical of cytoplasmic regions of transmembrane glycoproteins.

Transcriptional analysis of the gB gene

Northern blot analysis using four probes that span the entire FHV-1 gB gene (FIG. 2) has indicated the presence of 3 transcripts; 4.0, 3.2, and 1.5 Kb. As shown in FIG. 6, both the EcoRI-KpnI fragment (probe B) and the BamHI-EcoRI fragment (probe C) hybridized to the 4.0, 3.2 and 1.5 Kb transcripts, while the KpnI-EcoRI fragment (probe D) only hybridized to the 4.0 Kb transcript. These results indicate that the gB gene (3.2 Kb) is confined between the KpnI and SalI restriction sites and the transcription start site occurs between the KpnI and BamHI restriction sites. Thus the FHV-1 homolog of the HSV-1 gB gene was been identified using a 5' HSV-1 gB DNA probe in reduced-stringency hybridization experiments. The gene localized to a 3.3 Kb SacI subfragment of the larger SalI G fragment. Nucleotide sequencing of the SacI fragment has identified an open reading frame with characteristics typical of a glycoprotein gene. Based on the assumption that gB of FHV-1 contains 943 residues, cleavage of the signal peptide occurs after amino acid 69 and that 7 potential glycosylation sites are used, it is possible to calculate a MW of 114.5 Kd. If proteolytic cleavage occurs at amino acid 502, then two peptides with MW's of 60.5 and 54.0 Kd could result. If cleavage occurs at amino acid 513 then the two resulting peptides would have the MW's of 61.9 and 52.6 Kd. These numbers are in good agreement with the observed Mr values obtained by the immunoprecipitation and western blotting experiments.

EXAMPLE 2

In this example, the genomic location and the nucleotide sequence of the genes encoding a FHV-1 gD precursor polypeptide is described. To accomplish this, a 6.2 Kb portion of the U_(S) region of the FHV-1 genome was determined. Analyses of this sequence has identified 5 open reading frames capable of encoding homologs to HSV-1 Pk, gG, gD, gI and gE. Homologs to these gene products have been found in a number of alphaherpesviruses (i.e. HSV-1, EHV-1, PRV, VZV, BHV-1 and MDV). Comparison at the amino acid level has indicated that the Us gene products of FHV-1 are most similar to those of EHV-1, except for glycoprotein D which shows more homology with gD of BHV-1. Hydropathic analyses of the predicted translation products has shown that FHV-1 glycoprotein D, I and E exhibit features typical of membrane-bound glycoprotein. Northern analyses of the FHV-1 Us genes have indicated the likelihood of numerous co-terminal transcripts.

Material and Methods

Viral and bacterial strains.

FHV-1 (strain C-27) was obtained from the American Type Culture Collection (ATCC VR 636 which is well known to those skilled in the art and is publicly available) and propagated in Crandell Reese Feline Kidney (CRFK) cells as described previously (Maes, R. K., et al., J. Virol. 51: 259-262 (1984)). Infectious cellular lysates were used as the source for viral DNA. Escherichia coli strain JM101 and JM109 available upon request from Michigan State University, E. Lansing, Mich., were grown in LB medium and used to propagate recombinant M13.

Cloning and DNA Sequencing

This example includes the sequence for a portion of both strands of a 6,208 bp portion of the larger 14.5 Kb SalI B fragment (Rota, P., et al., Virology 154:168-179 (1986)). The 4.3 Kb EcoRI-EcoRI fragment and the adjacent 1.9 Kb EcoRI-SalI fragment located at the right terminus of the SalI B fragment were chosen for DNA sequence analysis. Hybridization analysis have indicated these two restriction fragments contain solely unique DNA.

For rapid generation of sequencing data, 4 individual M13 libraries were created using HAEIII, RSAI, TAQI and SAU3A restriction digestions of the 4.3 Kb EcoRI-EcoRI and 1.9 Kb EcoRI-SalI fragments. Single stranded DNA from recombinant M13 phage was isolated according to (Ausubel et al., Current protocols in molecular biology, John Wiley and Sons, New York, (1988)) and sequences using standard dideoxynucleotide chain termination reactions with the modified T7 polymerase, sequenase (US Biochemical, Cleveland, Ohio). ³⁵ S dATP (New England Nuclear, Boston, Mass.) was used as the label and dITP was used to resolve band compressions. Synthetic oligonucleotides, along with the Universal and 17'mer M13 primers were used to obtain sequencing information from both strands. Reaction products were electrophoretically separated and visualized by autoradiography of dried 8% acrylamide/7.0 M urea gels using Kodak X-AR (Rochester, N.Y.) film.

Analyses of Sequence Data

DNA sequences were compiled on a VAX computer using version 6.2 and 7.0 of the University of Wisconsin package UWGCG (UWGCG, Madison, Wis.). Hydrophilicity analysis of individual predicted translation products were generated by the method of (Kyte and Doolittle, J. of Molecular Biology 157:105-131, (1982)). Amino acid homology searches of the Swissprot (Release 18.0, 5/91) data bases were conducted using the FASTA program (UWGCG). The GAP, LINEUP, PILEUP programs were used to generate multiple alignments between FHV-1 Us predicted polypeptides and homologs found in related herpesviruses.

Results

Restriction map of the Unique Short Region of the FHV-1 Genome.

As shown in FIG. 8, the 14.5 Kb SalI B fragment contains 3 EcoRI restriction sites. A restriction map of the 4.3 Kb EcoRI-EcoRI and the 1.9 Kb EcoRI-SalI subfragments were constructed using EcoRI, XbaI, EcoRV, XhoI and SalI.

DNA Sequence analysis of 6.2 Kb of FHV-1 Us DNA

Sequence data obtained from the 6.2 Kb region of the SalI B fragment is presented in FIGS. 9A to 9E. Examination of the nucleotide sequence revealed the presence of 5 major open reading frames (ORF's). Open reading frame 3, capable of encoding a polypeptide of 373 amino acid residues, extends from nucleotide position 2062-3180 and encodes a precursor polypeptide to gD as shown in FIGS. 9A to 9E. Two potential initiation codons (CTAATGA and ATGATGA), next to each other can be used a start codons, although the later sequence has the critical purine at position -3. If this second initiation codon is used, then the expected polypeptide would be 373 amino acids long. A TATA-like element at position 1908 to 1912 is the only potential cis-acting promoter element. A stop codon TAA at position 3181-3183 is present, in the absence of any downstream polyadenylation signal. Hydropathy plots have indicated the presence of two hydrophobic sequences close to the amino and carboxyl termini. The first region FWWCGIFAVL (position 2077-2104) corresponds to the signal sequence and the second region VVIPAIVLSCLIIALILGVI near the carboxyl terminus could function as a membrane anchoring sequence. Four potential N-linked glycosylation sites are possible in the predicted translation product of ORF 3. An Mr of 46 Kd can be calculated, assuming cleavage of the nascent polypeptide occurs between Ala₁₃ and Val₁₄.

Comparison of the amino acid sequence of ORF 3 with proteins in the Swissprot data base has revealed extensive homology with gD analogs of other alphaherpesviruses. FASTA scores greater than 400 were achieved when these analyses include gD of bovine herpesvirus type 1, pseudorabies virus and equine herpesvirus type 1.

Analysis of transcripts encoding gD of FHV-1.

Northern analyses, using probes specific for the gD gene have indicated the likelihood of co-terminal transcripts. As shown in FIG. 11, two transcripts (3.5 and 1.8 Kb) were detected using the gD-specific probe. The 1.8 Kb transcript is thought to encode a monocistronic transcripts specifying gD. It is not known if this transcript is polyadenylated, since no polyadenlyation sites was found immediately 3' to the gD ORF. It is likely that the 3.5 Kb transcript terminates at the polyadenylation site located 3' to the downstream gene encoding glycoprotein I.

EXAMPLE 3

The aim of this example was to construct recombinant orthopoxviruses (i.e. raccoon poxviruses and vaccinia virus) expressing FHV-1 glycoproteins B and D. Selection of raccoon poxvirus as a vector was based upon a report that high titers of neutralizing antibodies were generated in cats infected with raccoon poxvirus. Furthermore, no adverse reactions were observed in the vaccinated cats (Scott, F., Raccoon poxvirus in the cat-candidate carrier virus for recombinant vaccines. In: the proceedings of the 69th conference of research workers in animal disease. Chicago, Ill. (1988)).

The FHV-1 gB/gD raccoon poxvirus recombinants are expected to be more immunogenic than MLV vaccines. In addition they should elicit better protection against reinfection and subsequent latency establishment. Poxvirus recombinants will also offer additional savings in storage and shipment costs of FVR vaccine, due to the higher stability of these recombinants over MLV vaccines.

Material and Methods

Cells and Viruses.

Crandell Reese Feline Kidney (CRFK) were cultured in Eagle minimum essential medium (MEM) supplemented with 10% fetal bovine serum (FBS) and used to propagate FHV-1, strain C-27. Rat-2 and human 143B cells, both thymidine kinase negative (TK-), were grown in the same medium. Vaccinia virus strain WR, raccoon poxvirus and recombinant viruses derived from both were propagated on Rat-2 cells in the presence of 25 ug/ml of 5-bromo-2'deoxyuridine (BUdR).

PCR-amplification and Plasmid Construction

The complete coding sequences of FHV-1 glycoproteins B and D were amplified using flanking oligonucleotides specific for the 5' and 3' ends of each gene. Oligonucleotides were synthesized using a 380B Applied biosystems DNA synthesizer (Applied Biosystems, Foster City, Calif.).

The gene encoding glycoprotein B was amplified using two oligonucleotides, 5' TAC CTC GAG TCA TGT CCA CTC GTG GCG ATC 3' and 5' GGT CTC GAG GGT TAG ACA AGA TTT G 3'. Each primer contained an XhoI recognition sequence which facilitated the cloning of the amplified 2.8 Kb product. The template (100 ng) was boiled for 2 minutes and 50 pmoles of each primer was allowed to anneal. The conditions for 37 cycles of amplification were as follows: 2 minutes at 53° C., 5 minutes at 72° C. and 1 minute at 95° C. One unit of pfu polymerase (Stratagene, La Jolla, Calif.) was used in the standard buffer.

To amplify the gene encoding gD of FHV-1, two gD-specific oligonucleotides, 5' CAT CTC GAG TAA TGA TGA CAC GTC TAC A 3' and 5' TGT GAA TTC AAG GAT GGT GAG TTG TA 3' were used. The latter oligonucleotide contained an XhoI recognition site, the former contained an EcoRI recognition site. Incorporation of these two restriction sites into the amplified PCR-product facilitated directional cloning. The buffer was identical to the one previously mentioned, while the PCR conditions differed slightly; 1 minute at 60° C., 2 minutes at 72° C. and 1 minute at 95° C. for 37 cycles with one unit of pfu polymerase (Stratagene, La Jolla, Calif.).

Both gB and gD PCR-amplified products were digested with the appropriate restriction endonucleases (XhoI for the gB gene and XhoI/EcoRI for the gD gene) and separately cloned into pKG19 (obtained from Dr. Paul Rota of the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta, Ga. and freely available from this source).

Transfections and Selection

Recombinant plasmid DNA was purified using alkaline lysis (Ausubel et al., Current Protocols in Molecular Biology, John Wiley and Sons, New York, (1988)). Plasmid DNA was then used to transfect human 143 Tk-cells using the lipofectin method (BRL, Gaithersburg, Md.). One hour prior to transfection the cells, grown to 75% confluency in 35 mM plates, were infected with either vaccinia or raccoon poxvirus using a m.o.i. of <1.0. Lipid/DNA complexes were created by mixing 25 ul of H₂ O, 25 ul of lipofectin (approx. 30 ug) and 50 ul of recombinant plasmid containing 20 ug. This mixture was incubated for 15 minutes at room temperature before addition to the infected cells. After absorption, transfected cells were pelleted using low-speed centrifugation and resuspended in 1.0 ml of Mandel's solution. Ten-fold serial dilutions of the viral supernatants were made and Rat 2 cells were infected for 1 hour at 37 C. Following this, 3.0 ml of 1% LMP agarose (45° C.) containing 1× MEM and 25 ug/ml BUdR was overlayed on the cells. After an incubation at 37° C. for 48 hours, 3.0 ml of neutral red was added and the cells were stained for <3.0 hours. Visible plaques were picked and resuspended in 500 ul of 1× Mandel's solution.

Detection of expressed glycoproteins

Indirect immunofluorescent antibody tests were carried out on transfected cells which were previously infected with either raccoon poxvirus or vaccinia virus. These cells designed to express either gB or gD in both raccoon poxvirus or vaccinia virus were cytocentrifuged onto glass slides. Cells were fixed with cold absolute methanol for 15 minutes and then blocked with 5% low-fat milk powder in 1× PBS for 1 hour. Expression of either FHV-1 gB or gD in these cells was assessed by the indirect fluorescent antibody test, using a rabbit hyperimmune serum against FHV-1 as the primary antibody and fluorescein labeled goat anti-rabbit serum as the reporter antibody.

Testing of the vaccinia poxvirus recombinants in rabbits

Experimental rabbits were inoculated intradermally with recombinant vaccinia poxviruses expressing either FHV-1 gB or FHV-1 gD. One month post-inoculation a blood sample was collected and the serum tested for the presence of virus neutralizing antibodies to FHV-1. A microtiter virus neutralization test was used for this purpose.

Western Blot Analyses

FHV-1 virions from infected CRFK cells were purified by rate zonal centrifugation through 10-40% potassium tartrate gradients (Talens, L. and Zee, Y., Proc. Soc. Exp. Biol. Med. 151: 132-135 (1976)). Purified virions were resuspended in 1× PBS and separated by SDS-PAGE. Immunoblotting was done according to procedures described by (Ausubel et al., Current Protocols in Molecular Biology, John Wiley and Sons, New York (1988)), using 5.0% low fat milk powder as a blocking agent. Alkaline phosphatase-labelled anti-rabbit conjugates along with the chromogens BCIP and NBT, were used to visualize the bands.

Virus Neutralization Assay

Antisera, each specific for the vaccinia recombinants (VVgB and VVgD), were assayed for the presence of virus-neutralizing antibodies by a microneutralization assay. Briefly, heat inactivated (56 C, 30') sera were used to make a two-fold dilution series. Approximately 100 TCID₅₀ of FHV-1 (C-27) was added to each dilution. The virus-serum mixtures were incubated for 1 hour at 37 C. CRFK cells (15,000) were added to each well and the plates were incubated at 37 C in an atmosphere of 5% CO₂ in air. The VN titers were expressed as the reciprocal of the highest serum dilution resulting in complete inhibition in CPE.

Results

Construction of recombinants vaccinia and raccoon poxviruses expressing glycoprotein B and D of FHV-1

The genomic locations of the genes encoding glycoproteins B and D of FHV-1 are illustrated in FIGS. 2 and 8. The gene encoding FHV-1 gB is located within a 3.3 Kb SacI subfragment of the larger SalI G. The SalI B (14.5 Kb) fragment from the unique short region encodes glycoprotein D. The gene is confined to a 1.5 Kb HincII-XhoI subfragment. These subfragments were purified and used as the templates for the amplification of both genes. Amplification of the gB and gD genes resulted in a 2.8 and 1.1 Kb PCR-product, respectively (FIG. 12). Restriction analyses of the gD PCR-product is presented in FIG. 13. Both amplified products were cloned into the vaccinia-thymidine kinase donor plasmid (pKG19) as depicted in FIG. 14. Restriction endonuclease analysis (FIGS. 15 and 16A to 16D) of the recombinants (pKGgD and pKGgB), respectively, verified the authenticity of the cloned gD gene (pKGgD) and indicated the two possible orientation of the cloned gB product.

Recombinant donor plasmids were transfected into vaccinia or raccoon poxvirus infected Human 143B Tk-cells. The number of BUdR resistant recombinants obtained was higher for vaccinia than the slower growing raccoon poxvirus. Actually, due to the slow growth of recombinants in the human cells and the fact that plaquing morphology was difficult to determine, RPV-recombinants were plaqued on Rat-2 Tk-cells. The Rat-2 cells formed a more single monolayer of cells, as compared to the human 143B cells, and RPV formed plaques in these cells within 4-5 days.

Expression of glycoproteins B and D in transfected Rat-2 cells

Transfected cells were analyzed for the expression of FHV-1 gB and gD using a indirect fluorescent antibody assay. As shown in FIG. 17, cytoplasmic staining was observed only in transfected cells previously infected with either vaccinia or raccoon poxviruses. Fluorescence was not observed in the controls. Cells infected with wild type vaccinia and raccoon poxvirus served as one form of negative control. The other control consisted of cells transfected with vaccinia or raccoon poxvirus donor plasmids containing an inverted gB genes with respect to the vaccinia 7.5 promoter.

Western blot analyses (FIG. 18) were done with rabbit antisera against VVgB and VVgD and potassium tartrate-purified FHV-1 virions. Major immunodominant bands of 60 Kd (cleaved form of gB) and 50 Kd (gD) were detected at a 1/400 dilution of the polyclonal sera. FHV-1 proteins did not react with an antiserum specific for WT-vaccinia virus (Data not shown). Rabbits immunized with VVgB or VVgD had VN titers of 64 and 1024, respectively in a microneutralization assay.

EXAMPLE 4

Testing of the raccoon poxvirus recombinants in experimental cats

A group of 12 Specific Pathogen Free (SPF) cats are purchased from a commercial supplier. The experimental cats are housed in approved ULAR facilities and cared for by licensed ULAR personnel. Sera are collected from all cats at the onset of the experiment. Five cats are inoculated with the raccoon pox recombinant expressing FHV-1 gB (Room 1). A second group of 5 cats receive the raccoon pox recombinant gD (Room 2) and a third group of 2 cats are used as challenge controls. One month after vaccination all cats are bled and tested for the presence of virus neutralizing antibodies to FHV-1. The vaccinated cats and the controls are then exposed to a dose of virulent virus known to induce clinical signs of rhinotracheitis in the control cats. Nasal, conjunctival and oral swabs are collected from all the cats at 3-day intervals. The swabs are extracted and tested for the presence of FHV-1 by inoculation of a feline cell line (CRFK). Both raccoon poxvirus recombinants (RPVgB and RPVgD) induce virus neutralizing antibodies in experimental cats. The antibodies can be induced in cats, since rabbits are not susceptible to raccoon poxvirus. Both raccoon pox recombinants expressing FHV-1 gB or FHV-1 gD can both induce protection against clinical signs of the disease. The recombinant expressing gD can be more efficient than the gB recombinant in this respect. The minimum dose needed for protection is between about 10³ and 10⁷ PFU (Plaque Forming Units) per dosage. The gD and gB recombinants could act synergistically in inducing protection against clinical signs and shedding of the virulent challenge virus. Induced immune response to either FHV-1 gD or gB can be checked by immunoprecipitation of ¹⁴ C-Glucosamine labelled FHV-1 with antisera from vaccinates (Maes, R., et al., J. of Virology 51: 259-262 (1984)).

It is intended that the foregoing description be only illustrative of the present invention and that the present invention be limited only by the hereinafter appended claims.

    __________________________________________________________________________     #             SEQUENCE LISTING                                                 - (1) GENERAL INFORMATION:                                                     -    (iii) NUMBER OF SEQUENCES:  11                                            - (2) INFORMATION FOR SEQ ID NO:1:                                             -      (i) SEQUENCE CHARACTERISTICS:                                                     (A) LENGTH: 2829                                                               (B) TYPE:  Nucleic A - #cid                                                    (C) STRANDEDNESS: Double                                                       (D) TOPOLOGY:  Linear                                                -     (ii) MOLECULE TYPE:                                                                (A) DESCRIPTION: DNA                                                 -    (iii) HYPOTHETICAL:  No                                                   -     (iv) ANTI-SENSE:  No                                                     -     (vi) ORIGINAL SOURCE:                                                    #herpesvirus-1ORGANISM:  Feline                                                          (B) STRAIN:  1                                                       # C-27    (C) INDIVIDUAL ISOLATE:                                                        (G) CELL TYPE:  N/A                                                  -     (ix) FEATURE:                                                                      (A) NAME/KEY:                                                                  (B) LOCATION:                                                                  (C) IDENTIFICATION METHOD: - #  Sequencing                           # DNA and deducedER INFORMATION:                                                              polypeptide                                                     -     (xi) SEQUENCE DESCRIPTION: SEQ ID NO:1:                                  - ATG TCC ACT CGT GGC GAT CTT GGG AAG CGG CG - #A CGA GGG AGT CGT TGG            48                                                                           Met Ser Thr Arg Gly Asp Leu Gly Lys Arg Ar - #g Arg Gly Ser Arg Trp            #15                                                                            - CAG GGA CAC AGT GGC TAT TTT CGA CAG AGA TG - #T TTT TTC CCT TCT CTA            96                                                                           Gln Gly His Ser Gly Tyr Phe Arg Gln Arg Cy - #s Phe Phe Pro Ser Leu            #            30                                                                - CTC GGT ATT GCA GCG ACT GGC TCC AGA CAT GG - #T AAC GGA TCG TCG GGA           144                                                                           Leu Gly Ile Ala Ala Thr Gly Ser Arg His Gl - #y Asn Gly Ser Ser Gly            #        45                                                                    - TTA ACC AGA CTA GCT AGA TAT GTT TCA TTT AT - #C TGG ATC GTA CTA TTC           192                                                                           Leu Thr Arg Leu Ala Arg Tyr Val Ser Phe Il - #e Trp Ile Val Leu Phe            #    605                                                                       - TTA GTC GGT CCC CGT CCA GTA GAG GGT CAA TC - #T GGA AGC ACA TCG GAA           240                                                                           Leu Val Gly Pro Arg Pro Val Glu Gly Gln Se - #r Gly Ser Thr Ser Glu            #80                                                                            - CAA CCC CGG CGG ACT GTA GCT ACC CCT GAG GT - #A GGG GTA CAC CAC CAA           288                                                                           Gln Pro Arg Arg Thr Val Ala Thr Pro Glu Va - #l Gly Val His His Gln            #                 95                                                           - AAC CAA CTA CAG ATC CCA CCG ATA TGT CGA TA - #T GAG GAA GCT CTC CGT           336                                                                           Asn Gln Leu Gln Ile Pro Pro Ile Cys Arg Ty - #r Glu Glu Ala Leu Arg            #           110                                                                - GCG TCC CAA ATA GAG GCT AAC GGA CCA TCG AC - #T TTT TAT ATG TGT CCA           384                                                                           Ala Ser Gln Ile Glu Ala Asn Gly Pro Ser Th - #r Phe Tyr Met Cys Pro            #       125                                                                    - CCA CCT TCA GGA TCT ACT GTC GTG CGT TTA GA - #G CCA CCA CGG GCC TGT           432                                                                           Pro Pro Ser Gly Ser Thr Val Val Arg Leu Gl - #u Pro Pro Arg Ala Cys            #   140                                                                        - CCA GAT TAT AAA CTA GGG AAA AAT TTT ACC GA - #G GGT ATA GCT GTA ATA           480                                                                           Pro Asp Tyr Lys Leu Gly Lys Asn Phe Thr Gl - #u Gly Ile Ala Val Ile            145                 1 - #50                 1 - #55                 1 -        #60                                                                            - TTT AAA GAA AAT ATA GCG CCA TAT AAA TTC AA - #G GCA AAT ATA TAC TAT           528                                                                           Phe Lys Glu Asn Ile Ala Pro Tyr Lys Phe Ly - #s Ala Asn Ile Tyr Tyr            #               175                                                            - AAA AAC ATT ATT ATG ACA ACG GTA TGG TCT GG - #G AGT TCC TAT GCC GTT           576                                                                           Lys Asn Ile Ile Met Thr Thr Val Trp Ser Gl - #y Ser Ser Tyr Ala Val            #           190                                                                - ACA ACC AAC CGA TAT ACA GAC AGG GTT CCC GT - #G AAA GTT CAA GAG ATT           624                                                                           Thr Thr Asn Arg Tyr Thr Asp Arg Val Pro Va - #l Lys Val Gln Glu Ile            #       205                                                                    - ACA GAT CTC ATA GAT AGA CGG GGT ATG TGC CT - #C TCG AAA GCT GAT TAC           672                                                                           Thr Asp Leu Ile Asp Arg Arg Gly Met Cys Le - #u Ser Lys Ala Asp Tyr            #   220                                                                        - GTT CGT AAC AAT TAT CAA TTT ACG GCC TTT GA - #T CGA GAC GAG GAT CCC           720                                                                           Val Arg Asn Asn Tyr Gln Phe Thr Ala Phe As - #p Arg Asp Glu Asp Pro            225                 2 - #30                 2 - #35                 2 -        #40                                                                            - AGA GAA CTG CCT CTG AAA CCT CCA AGT TCA AC - #A CTC TCC AGA GTC CGT           768                                                                           Arg Glu Leu Pro Leu Lys Pro Pro Ser Ser Th - #r Leu Ser Arg Val Arg            #               255                                                            - GGA TGG CAC ACC AAT GAA ACA TAC ACA AAG AT - #C GTG CTG CTG GAT TTC           816                                                                           Gly Trp His Thr Asn Glu Thr Tyr Thr Lys Il - #e Val Leu Leu Asp Phe            #           270                                                                - CAC CAC TCT GGG ACC TCT GTA AAT TGC ATC GT - #A GAG GAA GTG GAT GCA           864                                                                           His His Ser Gly Thr Ser Val Asn Cys Ile Va - #l Glu Glu Val Asp Ala            #       285                                                                    - AGA TCT GTA TAT CCA TAT GAC TCA TTT GCT AT - #C TCC ACT GGT GAC GTG           912                                                                           Arg Ser Val Tyr Pro Tyr Asp Ser Phe Ala Il - #e Ser Thr Gly Asp Val            #   300                                                                        - ATT CAC ATG TCT CCA TTC TTT GGG CTG AGG GA - #T GGA GCC CAT GTA GAA           960                                                                           Ile His Met Ser Pro Phe Phe Gly Leu Arg As - #p Gly Ala His Val Glu            305                 3 - #10                 3 - #15                 3 -        #20                                                                            - CAT ACT AGT TAT TCT TCA GAC AGA TTT CAA CA - #A ATC GAG GGA TAC TAT          1008                                                                           His Thr Ser Tyr Ser Ser Asp Arg Phe Gln Gl - #n Ile Glu Gly Tyr Tyr            #               335                                                            - CCA ATA GAC TTG GAT ACC GAT TAC ACT GGG GC - #A CCA GTT TCT CGC AAT          1056                                                                           Pro Ile Asp Leu Asp Thr Asp Tyr Thr Gly Al - #a Pro Val Ser Arg Asn            #           350                                                                - TTT TTG GAA ACT CCG CAT GTG ACA GTG GCC TG - #G AAC TGG ACC CCA AAG          1104                                                                           Phe Leu Glu Thr Pro His Val Thr Val Ala Tr - #p Asn Trp Thr Pro Lys            #       365                                                                    - TCT GGT CGG GTA TGT ACC TTA GCC AAA TGG AG - #G GAA ATA GAT GAA ATG          1152                                                                           Ser Gly Arg Val Cys Thr Leu Ala Lys Trp Ar - #g Glu Ile Asp Glu Met            #   380                                                                        - CTA CCG ATG AAT ATA GGC TCC TAT AGA TTT AC - #A GCC AAG ACC ATA TCC          1200                                                                           Leu Pro Met Asn Ile Gly Ser Tyr Arg Phe Th - #r Ala Lys Thr Ile Ser            385                 3 - #90                 3 - #95                 4 -        #00                                                                            - GCT ACT TTC ATC TCC AAT ACT TCA CAA TTT GA - #A ATC AAT CGT ATC CGT          1248                                                                           Ala Thr Phe Ile Ser Asn Thr Ser Gln Phe Gl - #u Ile Asn Arg Ile Arg            #               415                                                            - TTG GGG GAC TGT GCC ACC AAG GAG GCA GCC GA - #A GCC ATA GAC CGG ATT          1296                                                                           Leu Gly Asp Cys Ala Thr Lys Glu Ala Ala Gl - #u Ala Ile Asp Arg Ile            #           430                                                                - TAT AAG AGT AAA TAT AGT AAA ACT CAT ATT CA - #G ACT GGA ACC CTG GAG          1344                                                                           Tyr Lys Ser Lys Tyr Ser Lys Thr His Ile Gl - #n Thr Gly Thr Leu Glu            #       445                                                                    - ACC TAC CTA GCC CGT GGG GGA TTT CTA ATA GC - #T TTC CGT CCC ATG ATC          1392                                                                           Thr Tyr Leu Ala Arg Gly Gly Phe Leu Ile Al - #a Phe Arg Pro Met Ile            #   460                                                                        - AGC AAC GAA CTA GCA AAG TTA TAT ATC AAT GA - #A TTA GCA CGT TCC AAT          1440                                                                           Ser Asn Glu Leu Ala Lys Leu Tyr Ile Asn Gl - #u Leu Ala Arg Ser Asn            465                 4 - #70                 4 - #75                 4 -        #80                                                                            - CGC ACG GTA GTG GAT CTC AGT GCA CTC CTC AA - #T CCA TCT GGG GAA ACA          1488                                                                           Arg Thr Val Val Asp Leu Ser Ala Leu Leu As - #n Pro Ser Gly Glu Thr            #               495                                                            - GTA CAA CGA ACT AGA AGA TCG GTC CCA TCT AA - #T CAA CAT CAT AGG TCG          1536                                                                           Val Gln Arg Thr Arg Arg Ser Val Pro Ser As - #n Gln His His Arg Ser            #           510                                                                - CGG CGC AGC ACA ATA GAG GGG GGT ATA GAA AC - #C GTG AAC AAT GCA TCA          1584                                                                           Arg Arg Ser Thr Ile Glu Gly Gly Ile Glu Th - #r Val Asn Asn Ala Ser            #       525                                                                    - CTC CTC AAG ACC ACC TCA TCT GTG GAA TTC GC - #A ATG CTA CAA TTT GCC          1632                                                                           Leu Leu Lys Thr Thr Ser Ser Val Glu Phe Al - #a Met Leu Gln Phe Ala            #   540                                                                        - TAT GAC TAC ATA CAA GCC CAT GTA AAT GAA AT - #G TTG AGT CGG ATA GCC          1680                                                                           Tyr Asp Tyr Ile Gln Ala His Val Asn Glu Me - #t Leu Ser Arg Ile Ala            545                 5 - #50                 5 - #55                 5 -        #60                                                                            - ACT GCC TGG TGT ACA CTT CAG AAC CGC GAA CA - #T GTG CTG TGG ACA GAG          1728                                                                           Thr Ala Trp Cys Thr Leu Gln Asn Arg Glu Hi - #s Val Leu Trp Thr Glu            #               575                                                            - ACC CTA AAA CTC AAT CCC GGT GGG GTG GTC TC - #G ATG GCC CTA GAA CGT          1776                                                                           Thr Leu Lys Leu Asn Pro Gly Gly Val Val Se - #r Met Ala Leu Glu Arg            #           590                                                                - CGT GTA TCC GCG CGC CTA CTT GGA GAT GCC GT - #C GCC GTA ACA CAA TGT          1824                                                                           Arg Val Ser Ala Arg Leu Leu Gly Asp Ala Va - #l Ala Val Thr Gln Cys            #       605                                                                    - GTT AAC ATT TCT AGC GGA CAT GTC TAT ATC CA - #A AAT TCT ATG CGG GTG          1872                                                                           Val Asn Ile Ser Ser Gly His Val Tyr Ile Gl - #n Asn Ser Met Arg Val            #   620                                                                        - ACG GGT TCA TCA ACG ACA TGT TAC AGC CGC CC - #T CTT GTT TCC TTC CGT          1920                                                                           Thr Gly Ser Ser Thr Thr Cys Tyr Ser Arg Pr - #o Leu Val Ser Phe Arg            625                 6 - #30                 6 - #35                 6 -        #40                                                                            - GCC CTC AAT GAC TCC GAA TAC ATA GAA GGA CA - #A CTA GGG GAA AAC AAT          1968                                                                           Ala Leu Asn Asp Ser Glu Tyr Ile Glu Gly Gl - #n Leu Gly Glu Asn Asn            #               655                                                            - GAA CTT CTC GTG GAA CGA AAA CTA ATT GAG CC - #T TGC ACT GTC AAT AAT          2016                                                                           Glu Leu Leu Val Glu Arg Lys Leu Ile Glu Pr - #o Cys Thr Val Asn Asn            #           670                                                                - AAG CGG TAT TTT AAG TTT GGG GCA GAT TAT GT - #A TAT TTT GAG GAT TAT          2064                                                                           Lys Arg Tyr Phe Lys Phe Gly Ala Asp Tyr Va - #l Tyr Phe Glu Asp Tyr            #       685                                                                    - GCG TAT GTC CGT AAA GTC CCG CTA TCG GAG AT - #A GAA CTG ATA AGT GCG          2112                                                                           Ala Tyr Val Arg Lys Val Pro Leu Ser Glu Il - #e Glu Leu Ile Ser Ala            #   700                                                                        - TAT GTG ATT AAA TCT ACT CTC CTA GAG GAT CG - #T GAA TTT CTC CAC TCA          2160                                                                           Tyr Val Ile Lys Ser Thr Leu Leu Glu Asp Ar - #g Glu Phe Leu His Ser            705                 7 - #10                 7 - #15                 7 -        #20                                                                            - AGT TAT ACA CGA GCT GAG CTG GAA GAT ACC GG - #C CCT TTT GAC TAC AGC          2208                                                                           Ser Tyr Thr Arg Ala Glu Leu Glu Asp Thr Gl - #y Pro Phe Asp Tyr Ser            #               735                                                            - GAG ATT CAA CGC CGC AAC CAA CTC CAC GCC TT - #A AAA TTT TAT GAT ATA          2256                                                                           Glu Ile Gln Arg Arg Asn Gln Leu His Ala Le - #u Lys Phe Tyr Asp Ile            #           750                                                                - GAC AGC ATA GTC AGA GTG GAT AAT AAT CTT GT - #C ATC ATG CGT GGT ATG          2304                                                                           Asp Ser Ile Val Arg Val Asp Asn Asn Leu Va - #l Ile Met Arg Gly Met            #       765                                                                    - GCA AAT TTT TTT CAG GGA CTC GGG GAT GTG GG - #G GCT GGT TTC GGC AAG          2352                                                                           Ala Asn Phe Phe Gln Gly Leu Gly Asp Val Gl - #y Ala Gly Phe Gly Lys            #   780                                                                        - GTG GTC TTA GGG GCT GCG AGT GCG GTA ATC TC - #A ACA GTA TCA GGC GTA          2400                                                                           Val Val Leu Gly Ala Ala Ser Ala Val Ile Se - #r Thr Val Ser Gly Val            785                 7 - #90                 7 - #95                 8 -        #00                                                                            - TCA TCA TTT CTA AAC AAC CCA TTT GGA GCA TT - #G GCC GTG GGA CTG TTA          2448                                                                           Ser Ser Phe Leu Asn Asn Pro Phe Gly Ala Le - #u Ala Val Gly Leu Leu            #               815                                                            - ATA TTA GCT GGC ATC GTC GCA GCA TTC CTG GC - #A TAT CGC TAT ATA TCT          2496                                                                           Ile Leu Ala Gly Ile Val Ala Ala Phe Leu Al - #a Tyr Arg Tyr Ile Ser            #           830                                                                - AGA TTA CGT GCA AAT CCA ATG AAA GCC TTA TA - #T CCT GTG ACG ACT AGG          2544                                                                           Arg Leu Arg Ala Asn Pro Met Lys Ala Leu Ty - #r Pro Val Thr Thr Arg            #       845                                                                    - AAT TTG AAA CAG ACG GCT AAG AGC CCC GCC TC - #A ACG GCT GGT GGG GAT          2592                                                                           Asn Leu Lys Gln Thr Ala Lys Ser Pro Ala Se - #r Thr Ala Gly Gly Asp            #   860                                                                        - AGC GAC CCG GGA GTC GAT GAC TTC GAT GAG GA - #A AAG CTA ATG CAG GCA          2640                                                                           Ser Asp Pro Gly Val Asp Asp Phe Asp Glu Gl - #u Lys Leu Met Gln Ala            865                 8 - #70                 8 - #75                 8 -        #80                                                                            - AGG GAG ATG ATA AAA TAT ATG TCC CTC GTA TC - #G GCT ATG GAG CAA CAA          2688                                                                           Arg Glu Met Ile Lys Tyr Met Ser Leu Val Se - #r Ala Met Glu Gln Gln            #               895                                                            - GAA CAT AAG GCG ATG AAA AAG AAT AAG GGC CC - #A GCG ATC CTA ACG AGT          2736                                                                           Glu His Lys Ala Met Lys Lys Asn Lys Gly Pr - #o Ala Ile Leu Thr Ser            #           910                                                                - CAT CTC ACT AAC ATG GCC CTC CGT CGC CGT GG - #A CCT AAA TAC CAA CGC          2784                                                                           His Leu Thr Asn Met Ala Leu Arg Arg Arg Gl - #y Pro Lys Tyr Gln Arg            #       925                                                                    - CTC AAT AAT CTT GAT AGC GGT GAT GAT ACT GA - #A ACA AAT CTT GTC              2829                                                                           Leu Asn Asn Leu Asp Ser Gly Asp Asp Thr Gl - #u Thr Asn Leu Val                #   940                                                                        - (2) INFORMATION FOR SEQ ID NO:2:                                             -      (i) SEQUENCE CHARACTERISTICS:                                                     (A) LENGTH: 1119                                                               (B) TYPE:  Nucleic A - #cid                                                    (C) STRANDEDNESS:  Sing - #le                                                  (D) TOPOLOGY:  Linear                                                -     (ii) MOLECULE TYPE:                                                                (A) DESCRIPTION: DNA                                                 -    (iii) HYPOTHETICAL:  No                                                   -     (iv) ANTI-SENSE:  No                                                     -     (vi) ORIGINAL SOURCE:                                                    #herpesvirus) ORGANISM:  Feline                                                          (B) STRAIN:  1                                                       # C-27    (C) INDIVIDUAL ISOLATE:                                                        (G) CELL TYPE:  N/A                                                  -     (ix) FEATURE:                                                                      (A) NAME/KEY:                                                                  (B) LOCATION:                                                                  (C) IDENTIFICATION METHOD: - #  Sequencing                           # DNA and deducedER INFORMATION:                                                              polypeptide                                                     -     (xi) SEQUENCE DESCRIPTION: SEQ ID NO:2:                                  - ATG ACA CGT CTA CAT TTT TGG TGG TGT GGA AT - #C TTT GCG GTC CTG AAA            48                                                                           Met Thr Arg Leu His Phe Trp Trp Cys Gly Il - #e Phe Ala Val Leu Lys            #                 15                                                           - TAT CTG GTA TGT ACT TCA AGC CTT ACG ACC AC - #G CCA AAA ACA ACT ACG            96                                                                           Tyr Leu Val Cys Thr Ser Ser Leu Thr Thr Th - #r Pro Lys Thr Thr Thr            #            30                                                                - GTT TAT GTG AAG GGA TTT AAT ATA CCT CCA CT - #A CGC TAC AAT TAT ACT           144                                                                           Val Tyr Val Lys Gly Phe Asn Ile Pro Pro Le - #u Arg Tyr Asn Tyr Thr            #        45                                                                    - CAA GCC AGA ATC GTG CCA AAA ATT CCC CAG GC - #G ATG GAT CCG AAG ATA           192                                                                           Gln Ala Arg Ile Val Pro Lys Ile Pro Gln Al - #a Met Asp Pro Lys Ile            #    60                                                                        - ACA GCT GAA GTA CGT TAT GTA ACA TCA ATG GA - #T TCA TGT GGG ATG GTG           240                                                                           Thr Ala Glu Val Arg Tyr Val Thr Ser Met As - #p Ser Cys Gly Met Val            #80                                                                            - GCA TTG ATA TCA GAG CCG GAT ATA GAC GCT AC - #T ATT CGA ACC ATA CAA           288                                                                           Ala Leu Ile Ser Glu Pro Asp Ile Asp Ala Th - #r Ile Arg Thr Ile Gln            #                95                                                            - CTA TCT CAA AAA AAA ACA TAT AAC GCG ACT AT - #A AGT TGG TTT AAG GTA           336                                                                           Leu Ser Gln Lys Lys Thr Tyr Asn Ala Thr Il - #e Ser Trp Phe Lys Val            #           110                                                                - ACC CAG GGT TGT GAA TAC CCT ATG TTT CTT AT - #G GAT ATG AGA CTT TGT           384                                                                           Thr Gln Gly Cys Glu Tyr Pro Met Phe Leu Me - #t Asp Met Arg Leu Cys            #       125                                                                    - GAT CCT AAA CGG GAA TTT GGA ATA TGT GCT TT - #A CGG TCG CCT TCA TAT           432                                                                           Asp Pro Lys Arg Glu Phe Gly Ile Cys Ala Le - #u Arg Ser Pro Ser Tyr            #   140                                                                        - TGG TTG GAA CCT TTA ACA AAG TAT ATG TTC CT - #A ACA GAC GAT GAA CTG           480                                                                           Trp Leu Glu Pro Leu Thr Lys Tyr Met Phe Le - #u Thr Asp Asp Glu Leu            145                 1 - #50                 1 - #55                 1 -        #60                                                                            - GGT TTG ATT ATG ATG GCC CCG GCC CAA TTT AA - #T CAA GGA CAA TAT CGA           528                                                                           Gly Leu Ile Met Met Ala Pro Ala Gln Phe As - #n Gln Gly Gln Tyr Arg            #               175                                                            - AGA GTT ATA ACC ATC GAT GGT TCC ATG TTT TA - #T ACA GAT TTT ATG GTA           576                                                                           Arg Val Ile Thr Ile Asp Gly Ser Met Phe Ty - #r Thr Asp Phe Met Val            #           190                                                                - CAA CTA TCT CCA ACG CCA TGT TGG TTC GCA AA - #A CCC GAT AGA TAC GAA           624                                                                           Gln Leu Ser Pro Thr Pro Cys Trp Phe Ala Ly - #s Pro Asp Arg Tyr Glu            #       205                                                                    - GAG ATT CTA CAT GAA TGG TGT CGA AAT GTT AA - #A ACT ATT GGC CTT GAT           672                                                                           Glu Ile Leu His Glu Trp Cys Arg Asn Val Ly - #s Thr Ile Gly Leu Asp            #   220                                                                        - GGA GCT CGT GAT TAC CAC TAT TAT TGG GTA CC - #C TAT AAC CCA CAA CCT           720                                                                           Gly Ala Arg Asp Tyr His Tyr Tyr Trp Val Pr - #o Tyr Asn Pro Gln Pro            225                 2 - #30                 2 - #35                 2 -        #40                                                                            - CAC CAT AAA GCC GTA CTC TTA TAT TGG TAT CG - #G ACT CAT GGC CGA GAA           768                                                                           His His Lys Ala Val Leu Leu Tyr Trp Tyr Ar - #g Thr His Gly Arg Glu            #               255                                                            - CCC CCA GTA AGA TTC CAA GAG GCC ATT CGA TA - #T GAT CGT CCC GCC ATA           816                                                                           Pro Pro Val Arg Phe Gln Glu Ala Ile Arg Ty - #r Asp Arg Pro Ala Ile            #           270                                                                - CCG TCT GGG AGT GAG GAT TCG AAA CGG TCC AA - #C GAC TCT AGA GGA GAA           864                                                                           Pro Ser Gly Ser Glu Asp Ser Lys Arg Ser As - #n Asp Ser Arg Gly Glu            #       285                                                                    - TCG AGT GGA CCC AAT TGG ATA GAC ATT GAA AA - #T TAC ACT CCT AAA AAT           912                                                                           Ser Ser Gly Pro Asn Trp Ile Asp Ile Glu As - #n Tyr Thr Pro Lys Asn            #   300                                                                        - AAT GTG CCT ATT ATA ATA TCT GAC GAT GAC GT - #T CCT ACA GCC CCT CCC           960                                                                           Asn Val Pro Ile Ile Ile Ser Asp Asp Asp Va - #l Pro Thr Ala Pro Pro            305                 3 - #10                 3 - #15                 3 -        #20                                                                            - AAG GGC ATG AAT AAT CAG TCA GTA GTG ATA CC - #C GCA ATC GTA CTA AGT          1008                                                                           Lys Gly Met Asn Asn Gln Ser Val Val Ile Pr - #o Ala Ile Val Leu Ser            #               335                                                            - TGT CTT ATA ATA GCA CTG ATT CTA GGA GTG AT - #A TAT TAT ATT TTG AGG          1056                                                                           Cys Leu Ile Ile Ala Leu Ile Leu Gly Val Il - #e Tyr Tyr Ile Leu Arg            #           350                                                                - GTA AAG AGG TCT CGA TCA ACT GCA TAT CAA CA - #A CTT CCT ATA ATA CAT          1104                                                                           Val Lys Arg Ser Arg Ser Thr Ala Tyr Gln Gl - #n Leu Pro Ile Ile His            #       365                                                                    #  1119            CT                                                          Thr Thr His His Pro                                                                370                                                                        - (2) INFORMATION FOR SEQ ID NO:3:                                             -      (i) SEQUENCE CHARACTERISTICS:                                                     (A) LENGTH: 179                                                                (B) TYPE:  Amino Aci - #d                                                      (C) STRANDEDNESS: Single                                                       (D) TOPOLOGY:  Linear                                                -     (ii) MOLECULE TYPE:                                                                (A) DESCRIPTION: Polypepti - #de                                     -    (iii) HYPOTHETICAL:  No                                                   -     (iv) ANTI-SENSE:  No                                                     -     (vi) ORIGINAL SOURCE:                                                    #herpesvirus-1ORGANISM:  Feline                                                          (B) STRAIN:  1                                                       # C-27    (C) INDIVIDUAL ISOLATE:                                                        (G) CELL TYPE:  N/A                                                  -     (ix) FEATURE:                                                                      (A) NAME/KEY:                                                                  (B) LOCATION:                                                                  (C) IDENTIFICATION METHOD: - #  Deduced sequence                     # ICP18.5 (D) OTHER INFORMATION:                                               -     (xi) SEQUENCE DESCRIPTION: SEQ ID NO:3:                                  #Phe Asp His Asp Ser His Asny Pro Leu                                          #   15                                                                         - Phe Ala Gln Pro Pro Asn Thr Ala Phe Tyr Ph - #e Ser Val Glu Asn Val          #                30                                                            - Gly Leu Leu Pro His Leu Lys Glu Glu Leu Al - #a Gly Phe Met Leu Ser          #            45                                                                - Ser Thr Arg Gly Gly Trp Thr Val Ser Lys Ph - #e Gln Arg Phe Tyr Tyr          #        60                                                                    - Phe Gly Asp Asp Thr Ser Gly Val Thr Thr Th - #r Gln Arg Leu Ala Trp          #    75                                                                        - Lys Tyr Ile Arg Glu Leu Ile Leu Ala Ser Al - #a Ile Phe Ser Ser Val          #95                                                                            - Phe His Cys Gly Glu Val Lys Leu Ala Thr Le - #u Leu His Arg Thr Arg          #               110                                                            - Pro Ala Asn Thr Gly Thr Gln Ile Cys Pro Pr - #o Gly Ile Tyr Leu Thr          #           125                                                                - Tyr Glu Glu Ser Cys Pro Leu Val Ala Ile Le - #u Gly Ser Gly Asp Glu          #       140                                                                    - Gly Val Val Gly Arg Asp Thr Val Ala Ile Ph - #e Asp Arg Asp Val Phe          #   155                                                                        - Ser Leu Leu Tyr Ser Val Leu Gln Arg Leu Al - #a Pro Asp Met Val Thr          160                 1 - #65                 1 - #70                 1 -        #75                                                                            - Asp Arg Arg Asp                                                              - (2) INFORMATION FOR SEQ ID NO:4:                                             -      (i) SEQUENCE CHARACTERISTICS:                                                     (A) LENGTH: 943                                                                (B) TYPE:  Amino Aci - #d                                                      (C) STRANDEDNESS: Single                                                       (D) TOPOLOGY:  Linear                                                -     (ii) MOLECULE TYPE:                                                                (A) DESCRIPTION: Polypepti - #de                                     -    (iii) HYPOTHETICAL:  No                                                   -     (iv) ANTI-SENSE:  No                                                     -     (vi) ORIGINAL SOURCE:                                                    #herpesvirus-1ORGANISM:  Feline                                                          (B) STRAIN:  1                                                       # C-27    (C) INDIVIDUAL ISOLATE:                                                        (G) CELL TYPE:  N/A                                                  -     (ix) FEATURE:                                                                      (A) NAME/KEY:                                                                  (B) LOCATION:                                                                  (C) IDENTIFICATION METHOD: - #  Deduced sequence                     # gB      (D) OTHER INFORMATION:                                               -     (xi) SEQUENCE DESCRIPTION: SEQ ID NO:4:                                  -             Met Ser Thr Arg - # Gly Asp Leu Gly Lys Arg Arg Arg              #            10                                                                - Gly Ser Arg Trp Gln Gly His Ser Gly Tyr Ph - #e Arg Gln Arg Cys Phe          #        25                                                                    - Phe Pro Ser Leu Leu Gly Ile Ala Ala Thr Gl - #y Ser Arg His Gly Asn          #    40                                                                        - Gly Ser Ser Gly Leu Thr Arg Leu Ala Arg Ty - #r Val Ser Phe Ile Trp          #60                                                                            - Ile Val Leu Phe Leu Val Gly Pro Arg Pro Va - #l Glu Gly Gln Ser Gly          #                75                                                            - Ser Thr Ser Glu Gln Pro Arg Arg Thr Val Al - #a Thr Pro Glu Val Gly          #            90                                                                - Val His His Gln Asn Gln Leu Gln Ile Pro Pr - #o Ile Cys Arg Tyr Glu          #        105                                                                   - Glu Ala Leu Arg Ala Ser Gln Ile Glu Ala As - #n Gly Pro Ser Thr Phe          #   120                                                                        - Tyr Met Cys Pro Pro Pro Ser Gly Ser Thr Va - #l Val Arg Leu Glu Pro          125                 1 - #30                 1 - #35                 1 -        #40                                                                            - Pro Arg Ala Cys Pro Asp Tyr Lys Leu Gly Ly - #s Asn Phe Thr Glu Gly          #               155                                                            - Ile Ala Val Ile Phe Lys Glu Asn Ile Ala Pr - #o Tyr Lys Phe Lys Ala          #           170                                                                - Asn Ile Tyr Tyr Lys Asn Ile Ile Met Thr Th - #r Val Trp Ser Gly Ser          #       185                                                                    - Ser Tyr Ala Val Thr Thr Asn Arg Tyr Thr As - #p Arg Val Pro Val Lys          #   200                                                                        - Val Gln Glu Ile Thr Asp Leu Ile Asp Arg Ar - #g Gly Met Cys Leu Ser          205                 2 - #10                 2 - #15                 2 -        #20                                                                            - Lys Ala Asp Tyr Val Arg Asn Asn Tyr Gln Ph - #e Thr Ala Phe Asp Arg          #               235                                                            - Asp Glu Asp Pro Arg Glu Leu Pro Leu Lys Pr - #o Pro Ser Ser Thr Leu          #           250                                                                - Ser Arg Val Arg Gly Trp His Thr Asn Glu Th - #r Tyr Thr Lys Ile Val          #       265                                                                    - Leu Leu Asp Phe His His Ser Gly Thr Ser Va - #l Asn Cys Ile Val Glu          #   280                                                                        - Glu Val Asp Ala Arg Ser Val Tyr Pro Tyr As - #p Ser Phe Ala Ile Ser          285                 2 - #90                 2 - #95                 3 -        #00                                                                            - Thr Gly Asp Val Ile His Met Ser Pro Phe Ph - #e Gly Leu Arg Asp Gly          #               315                                                            - Ala His Val Glu His Thr Ser Tyr Ser Ser As - #p Arg Phe Gln Gln Ile          #           330                                                                - Glu Gly Tyr Tyr Pro Ile Asp Leu Asp Thr As - #p Tyr Thr Gly Ala Pro          #       345                                                                    - Val Ser Arg Asn Phe Leu Glu Thr Pro His Va - #l Thr Val Ala Trp Asn          #   360                                                                        - Trp Thr Pro Lys Ser Gly Arg Val Cys Thr Le - #u Ala Lys Trp Arg Glu          365                 3 - #70                 3 - #75                 3 -        #80                                                                            - Ile Asp Glu Met Leu Pro Met Asn Ile Gly Se - #r Tyr Arg Phe Thr Ala          #               395                                                            - Lys Thr Ile Ser Ala Thr Phe Ile Ser Asn Th - #r Ser Gln Phe Glu Ile          #           410                                                                - Asn Arg Ile Arg Leu Gly Asp Cys Ala Thr Ly - #s Glu Ala Ala Glu Ala          #       425                                                                    - Ile Asp Arg Ile Tyr Lys Ser Lys Tyr Ser Ly - #s Thr His Ile Gln Thr          #   440                                                                        - Gly Thr Leu Glu Thr Tyr Leu Ala Arg Gly Gl - #y Phe Leu Ile Ala Phe          445                 4 - #50                 4 - #55                 4 -        #60                                                                            - Arg Pro Met Ile Ser Asn Glu Leu Ala Lys Le - #u Tyr Ile Asn Glu Leu          #               475                                                            - Ala Arg Ser Asn Arg Thr Val Val Asp Leu Se - #r Ala Leu Leu Asn Pro          #           490                                                                - Ser Gly Glu Thr Val Gln Arg Thr Arg Arg Se - #r Val Pro Ser Asn Gln          #       505                                                                    - His His Arg Ser Arg Arg Ser Thr Ile Glu Gl - #y Gly Ile Glu Thr Val          #   520                                                                        - Asn Asn Ala Ser Leu Leu Lys Thr Thr Ser Se - #r Val Glu Phe Ala Met          525                 5 - #30                 5 - #35                 5 -        #40                                                                            - Leu Gln Phe Ala Tyr Asp Tyr Ile Gln Ala Hi - #s Val Asn Glu Met Leu          #               555                                                            - Ser Arg Ile Ala Thr Ala Trp Cys Thr Leu Gl - #n Asn Arg Glu His Val          #           570                                                                - Leu Trp Thr Glu Thr Leu Lys Leu Asn Pro Gl - #y Gly Val Val Ser Met          #       585                                                                    - Ala Leu Glu Arg Arg Val Ser Ala Arg Leu Le - #u Gly Asp Ala Val Ala          #   600                                                                        - Val Thr Gln Cys Val Asn Ile Ser Ser Gly Hi - #s Val Tyr Ile Gln Asn          605                 6 - #10                 6 - #15                 6 -        #20                                                                            - Ser Met Arg Val Thr Gly Ser Ser Thr Thr Cy - #s Tyr Ser Arg Pro Leu          #               635                                                            - Val Ser Phe Arg Ala Leu Asn Asp Ser Glu Ty - #r Ile Glu Gly Gln Leu          #           650                                                                - Gly Glu Asn Asn Glu Leu Leu Val Glu Arg Ly - #s Leu Ile Glu Pro Cys          #       665                                                                    - Thr Val Asn Asn Lys Arg Tyr Phe Lys Phe Gl - #y Ala Asp Tyr Val Tyr          #   680                                                                        - Phe Glu Asp Tyr Ala Tyr Val Arg Lys Val Pr - #o Leu Ser Glu Ile Glu          685                 6 - #90                 6 - #95                 7 -        #00                                                                            - Leu Ile Ser Ala Tyr Val Ile Lys Ser Thr Le - #u Leu Glu Asp Arg Glu          #               715                                                            - Phe Leu His Ser Ser Tyr Thr Arg Ala Glu Le - #u Glu Asp Thr Gly Pro          #           730                                                                - Phe Asp Tyr Ser Glu Ile Gln Arg Arg Asn Gl - #n Leu His Ala Leu Lys          #       745                                                                    - Phe Tyr Asp Ile Asp Ser Ile Val Arg Val As - #p Asn Asn Leu Val Ile          #   760                                                                        - Met Arg Gly Met Ala Asn Phe Phe Gln Gly Le - #u Gly Asp Val Gly Ala          765                 7 - #70                 7 - #75                 7 -        #80                                                                            - Gly Phe Gly Lys Val Val Leu Gly Ala Ala Se - #r Ala Val Ile Ser Thr          #               795                                                            - Val Ser Gly Val Ser Ser Phe Leu Asn Asn Pr - #o Phe Gly Ala Leu Ala          #           810                                                                - Val Gly Leu Leu Ile Leu Ala Gly Ile Val Al - #a Ala Phe Leu Ala Tyr          #       825                                                                    - Arg Tyr Ile Ser Arg Leu Arg Ala Asn Pro Me - #t Lys Ala Leu Tyr Pro          #   840                                                                        - Val Thr Thr Arg Asn Leu Lys Gln Thr Ala Ly - #s Ser Pro Ala Ser Thr          845                 8 - #50                 8 - #55                 8 -        #60                                                                            - Ala Gly Gly Asp Ser Asp Pro Gly Val Asp As - #p Phe Asp Glu Glu Lys          #               875                                                            - Leu Met Gln Ala Arg Glu Met Ile Lys Tyr Me - #t Ser Leu Val Ser Ala          #           890                                                                - Met Glu Gln Gln Glu His Lys Ala Met Lys Ly - #s Asn Lys Gly Pro Ala          #       905                                                                    - Ile Leu Thr Ser His Leu Thr Asn Met Ala Le - #u Arg Arg Arg Gly Pro          #   920                                                                        - Lys Tyr Gln Arg Leu Asn Asn Leu Asp Ser Gl - #y Asp Asp Thr Glu Thr          925                 9 - #30                 9 - #35                 9 -        #40                                                                            - Asn Leu Val                                                                  - (2) INFORMATION FOR SEQ ID NO:5:                                             -      (i) SEQUENCE CHARACTERISTICS:                                                     (A) LENGTH: 3339                                                               (B) TYPE:  Nucleic A - #cid                                                    (C) STRANDEDNESS: Double                                                       (D) TOPOLOGY:  Linear                                                -     (ii) MOLECULE TYPE:                                                                (A) DESCRIPTION: DNA                                                 -    (iii) HYPOTHETICAL:  No                                                   -     (iv) ANTI-SENSE:  No                                                     -     (vi) ORIGINAL SOURCE:                                                    #herpesvirus-1ORGANISM:  Feline                                                          (B) STRAIN:  1                                                       # C-27    (C) INDIVIDUAL ISOLATE:                                                        (G) CELL TYPE:  N/A                                                  -     (ix) FEATURE:                                                                      (A) NAME/KEY:                                                                  (B) LOCATION:                                                                  (C) IDENTIFICATION METHOD: - #  Sequencing                           # DNA encoding ICP18.5 and gBON:                                               -     (xi) SEQUENCE DESCRIPTION: SEQ ID NO:5:                                  #GAC CAC GAC AGT CAT AAC       47 CTA TTC                                      - TTT GCC CAA CCC CCC AAC ACA GCG TTT TAT TT - #C AGT GTT GAG AAC GTT            95                                                                           - GGT CTG CTT CCA CAT TTA AAA GAA GAA TTG GC - #G GGA TTT ATG TTA AG            143                                                                           - TCC ACC CGG GGT GGG TGG ACG GTG AGT AAA TT - #T CAA AGA TTT TAC TA            191                                                                           - TTC GGT GAT GAT ACG TCT GGC GTC ACA ACA AC - #T CAG CGG TTG GCT TG            239                                                                           - AAA TAT ATC CGT GAG CTC ATT CTA GCA TCT GC - #C ATA TTT TCC TCC GT            287                                                                           - TTT CAC TGC GGT GAG GTG AAG CTT GCT ACG CT - #C TTG CAT CGC ACA CG            335                                                                           - CCG GCT AAT ACA GGT ACC CAG ATC TGC CCA CC - #C GGC ATT TAT CTA AC            383                                                                           #GGG AAG CGG CGA CGA        430 GGC GAT CTT                                    - GGG AGT CGT TGG CAG GGA CAC AGT GGC TAT TT - #T CGA CAG AGA TGT TT            478                                                                           - TTC CCT TCT CTA CTC GGT ATT GCA GCG ACT GG - #C TCC AGA CAT GGT AA            526                                                                           - GGA TCG TCG GGA TTA ACC AGA CTA GCT AGA TA - #T GTT TCA TTT ATC TG            574                                                                           - ATC GTA CTA TTC TTA GTC GGT CCC CGT CCA GT - #A GAG GGT CAA TCT GG            622                                                                           - AGC ACA TCG GAA CAA CCC CGG CGG ACT GTA GC - #T ACC CCT GAG GTA GG            670                                                                           - GTA CAC CAC CAA AAC CAA CTA CAG ATC CCA CC - #G ATA TGT CGA TAT GA            718                                                                           - GAA GCT CTC CGT GCG TCC CAA ATA GAG GCT AA - #C GGA CCA TCG ACT TT            766                                                                           - TAT ATG TGT CCA CCA CCT TCA GGA TCT ACT GT - #C GTG CGT TTA GAG CC            814                                                                           - CCA CGG GCC TGT CCA GAT TAT AAA CTA GGG AA - #A AAT TTT ACC GAG GG            862                                                                           - ATA GCT GTA ATA TTT AAA GAA AAT ATA GCG CC - #A TAT AAA TTC AAG GC            910                                                                           - AAT ATA TAC TAT AAA AAC ATT ATT ATG ACA AC - #G GTA TGG TCT GGG AG            958                                                                           - TCC TAT GCC GTT ACA ACC AAC CGA TAT ACA GA - #C AGG GTT CCC GTG A            1006                                                                           - GTT CAA GAG ATT ACA GAT CTC ATA GAT AGA CG - #G GGT ATG TGC CTC T            1054                                                                           - AAA GCT GAT TAC GTT CGT AAC AAT TAT CAA TT - #T ACG GCC TTT GAT C            1102                                                                           - GAC GAG GAT CCC AGA GAA CTG CCT CTG AAA CC - #T CCA AGT TCA ACA C            1150                                                                           - TCC AGA GTC CGT GGA TGG CAC ACC AAT GAA AC - #A TAC ACA AAG ATC G            1198                                                                           - CTG CTG GAT TTC CAC CAC TCT GGG ACC TCT GT - #A AAT TGC ATC GTA G            1246                                                                           - GAA GTG GAT GCA AGA TCT GTA TAT CCA TAT GA - #C TCA TTT GCT ATC T            1294                                                                           - ACT GGT GAC GTG ATT CAC ATG TCT CCA TTC TT - #T GGG CTG AGG GAT G            1342                                                                           - GCC CAT GTA GAA CAT ACT AGT TAT TCT TCA GA - #C AGA TTT CAA CAA A            1390                                                                           - GAG GGA TAC TAT CCA ATA GAC TTG GAT ACC GA - #T TAC ACT GGG GCA C            1438                                                                           - GTT TCT CGC AAT TTT TTG GAA ACT CCG CAT GT - #G ACA GTG GCC TGG A            1486                                                                           - TGG ACC CCA AAG TCT GGT CGG GTA TGT ACC TT - #A GCC AAA TGG AGG G            1534                                                                           - ATA GAT GAA ATG CTA CCG ATG AAT ATA GGC TC - #C TAT AGA TTT ACA G            1582                                                                           - AAG ACC ATA TCC GCT ACT TTC ATC TCC AAT AC - #T TCA CAA TTT GAA A            1630                                                                           - AAT CGT ATC CGT TTG GGG GAC TGT GCC ACC AA - #G GAG GCA GCC GAA G            1678                                                                           - ATA GAC CGG ATT TAT AAG AGT AAA TAT AGT AA - #A ACT CAT ATT CAG A            1726                                                                           - GGA ACC CTG GAG ACC TAC CTA GCC CGT GGG GG - #A TTT CTA ATA GCT T            1774                                                                           - CGT CCC ATG ATC AGC AAC GAA CTA GCA AAG TT - #A TAT ATC AAT GAA T            1822                                                                           - GCA CGT TCC AAT CGC ACG GTA GTG GAT CTC AG - #T GCA CTC CTC AAT C            1870                                                                           - TCT GGG GAA ACA GTA CAA CGA ACT AGA AGA TC - #G GTC CCA TCT AAT C            1918                                                                           - CAT CAT AGG TCG CGG CGC AGC ACA ATA GAG GG - #G GGT ATA GAA ACC G            1966                                                                           - AAC AAT GCA TCA CTC CTC AAG ACC ACC TCA TC - #T GTG GAA TTC GCA A            2014                                                                           - CTA CAA TTT GCC TAT GAC TAC ATA CAA GCC CA - #T GTA AAT GAA ATG T            2062                                                                           - AGT CGG ATA GCC ACT GCC TGG TGT ACA CTT CA - #G AAC CGC GAA CAT G            2110                                                                           - CTG TGG ACA GAG ACC CTA AAA CTC AAT CCC GG - #T GGG GTG GTC TCG A            2158                                                                           - GCC CTA GAA CGT CGT GTA TCC GCG CGC CTA CT - #T GGA GAT GCC GTC G            2206                                                                           - GTA ACA CAA TGT GTT AAC ATT TCT AGC GGA CA - #T GTC TAT ATC CAA A            2254                                                                           - TCT ATG CGG GTG ACG GGT TCA TCA ACG ACA TG - #T TAC AGC CGC CCT C            2302                                                                           - GTT TCC TTC CGT GCC CTC AAT GAC TCC GAA TA - #C ATA GAA GGA CAA C            2350                                                                           - GGG GAA AAC AAT GAA CTT CTC GTG GAA CGA AA - #A CTA ATT GAG CCT T            2398                                                                           - ACT GTC AAT AAT AAG CGG TAT TTT AAG TTT GG - #G GCA GAT TAT GTA T            2446                                                                           - TTT GAG GAT TAT GCG TAT GTC CGT AAA GTC CC - #G CTA TCG GAG ATA G            2494                                                                           - CTG ATA AGT GCG TAT GTG ATT AAA TCT ACT CT - #C CTA GAG GAT CGT G            2542                                                                           - TTT CTC CAC TCA AGT TAT ACA CGA GCT GAG CT - #G GAA GAT ACC GGC C            2590                                                                           - TTT GAC TAC AGC GAG ATT CAA CGC CGC AAC CA - #A CTC CAC GCC TTA A            2638                                                                           - TTT TAT GAT ATA GAC AGC ATA GTC AGA GTG GA - #T AAT AAT CTT GTC A            2686                                                                           - ATG CGT GGT ATG GCA AAT TTT TTT CAG GGA CT - #C GGG GAT GTG GGG G            2734                                                                           - GGT TTC GGC AAG GTG GTC TTA GGG GCT CGG AG - #T GCG GTA ATC TCA A            2782                                                                           - GTA TCA GGC GTA TCA TCA TTT CTA AAC AAC CC - #A TTT GGA GCA TTG G            2830                                                                           - GTG GGA CTG TTA ATA TTA GCT GGC ATC GTC GC - #A GCA TTC CTG GCA T            2878                                                                           - CGC TAT ATA TCT AGA TTA CGT GCA AAT CCA AT - #G AAA GCC TTA TAT C            2926                                                                           - GTG ACG ACT AGG AAT TTG AAA CAG ACG GCT AA - #G AGC CCC GCC TCA A            2974                                                                           - GCT GGT GGG GAT AGC GAC CCG GGA GTC GAT GA - #C TTC GAT GAG GAA A            3022                                                                           - CTA ATG CAG GCA AGG GAG ATG ATA AAA TAT AT - #G TCC CTC GTA TCG G            3070                                                                           - ATG GAG CAA CAA GAA CAT AAG GCG ATG AAA AA - #G AAT AAG GGC CCA G            3118                                                                           - ATC CTA ACG AGT CAT CTC ACT AAC ATG GCC CT - #C CGT CGC CGT GGA C            3166                                                                           - AAA TAC CAA CGC CTC AAT AAT CTT GAT AGC GG - #T GAT GAT ACT GAA A            3214                                                                           - AAT CTT GTC TAA CCAACCAGAC CATCTCTAAA TTTTTATCCA CA - #AAAAAAGT T            3269                                                                           - AGATAAT AAATTTTGAT CTCAAAATAT CCTGTATGTC ATCATTCTCC GCCCA - #TTCA            3326                                                                           #    3339                                                                      - (2) INFORMATION FOR SEQ ID NO:6:                                             -      (i) SEQUENCE CHARACTERISTICS:                                                     (A) LENGTH: 6176                                                               (B) TYPE:  Nucleic A - #cid                                                    (C) STRANDEDNESS: Double                                                       (D) TOPOLOGY:  Linear                                                -     (ii) MOLECULE TYPE:                                                                (A) DESCRIPTION: DNA                                                 -    (iii) HYPOTHETICAL:  No                                                   -     (iv) ANTI-SENSE:  No                                                     -     (vi) ORIGINAL SOURCE:                                                    #herpesvirus-1ORGANISM:  Feline                                                          (B) STRAIN:  1                                                       # C-27    (C) INDIVIDUAL ISOLATE:                                                        (G) CELL TYPE:  N/A                                                  -     (ix) FEATURE:                                                                      (A) NAME/KEY:                                                                  (B) LOCATION:                                                                  (C) IDENTIFICATION METHOD: - #  Sequencing                           # DNA encoding PK, gG, gD,ATION:                                                              gI, gE                                                          #SEQ ID NO:6:i) SEQUENCE DESCRIPTION:                                          - GAA TTC CCA GGC GAC CCG ACT TCT AAA TTA AC - #T ATA GAC TTT ATT CAT            48                                                                           - TAT GCC TCA TGT GTA AGA CAG CCT TAT ACA CG - #A TAC GAT TGT ATG TCA            96                                                                           - AAA TAC GAT TTG CCG CTA GAT GGG GAG TTT GT - #A GTG CAT AAG ATG TTG           144                                                                           - ACT TTC GAT GCC AAG TTC CGA CCA TCG GCC GC - #T GAA ATT CTA AAC TAT           192                                                                           - CCA ATG TTT CGT GAT ACA TAG TTACATCATT ATCTATGGG - #T GGGACTTTCC AC           245                                                                           - CAAGACAG TATAAAGTAT TTGGGACTCC ACAATAGCAT TCATCCTTCT TACC - #CTTCTA           303                                                                           #CGT ATA CAT      357AC TCAACTTGGA AGAAAA ATG GGA AAT                          - ATT TTA ATA TGC ATT GCA GCA TTC TAC ATA AC - #C ATC GCG GCT GCT AGG           405                                                                           - AAT GCC CCA ATG GAT CTC TGT TAC GCC GAC CC - #C AGA GAT ACA TCA CCA           453                                                                           - CAA CCC ATA GGA CAT CCT AAT TAT AAA CAA GT - #G AAT ATA ACG ATC CAC           501                                                                           - TAC CCC GCA CCA AAG TGG GGA TAT GTT GAA CA - #T TCC AGT GGA TGT GAA           549                                                                           - TTA CGT TTA TTG GAC CCG AGA GTT GAT GTG TC - #T CTT CAA GAT CAC CAG           597                                                                           - AGA AGG GCA GAC GCT ACG ATT GCT TGG ACT TT - #T GAT CTC GGA ACA TGT           645                                                                           - CAA ATA CCT ATC GCG TAT AGA GAA TAT TAT AA - #C TGT ACT GGG AAT TTA           693                                                                           - ATA CCC TCC CCA GAA ACT TGC GAA GGG TAT TC - #C GCG ACC TCC ATA CGC           741                                                                           - TTC GAA GGT CTA ACC ATC TAT ACC TTG GTA AA - #T ATA AGT CTA CTC CTT           789                                                                           - CAA CCA GGA ATA TTC GAT TCC GGG AGT TTC CT - #G TAT TCA TTT ATA TAT           837                                                                           - GGT CAA AAT AGA TAC AAT GGA CGT ATT ATA GT - #T CAT GTA GAA AAA AAT           885                                                                           - ACT GAT TAT CCC TGC AAA ATG TAT CAT GGA CT - #C ATG GCT CCA TTT GAC           933                                                                           - CAT CAT CCC CAA AGC CAC GTT GAA ACT CCG AA - #T GAT AAG AAT CAT CGT           981                                                                           - AGA GGG CGG GGA TGT TTT CCC GAA TTG GTG GA - #A CCT GTT CTA TGG GT           1029                                                                           - AAT ATC AGC AGT GAT CTT ATT GGT GGT CCA CC - #T TTC GAC TAT AAT CA           1077                                                                           - GAA GAT GAG GCT GAT ATT GAG AGT GAT GAG CT - #C CCG GAG GAG ATA TA           1125                                                                           - ATA ACT ACT CAG ATT GTC GTG CGA CTA ATA TG - #T TTG TTC CGA GAG AG           1173                                                                           - CCC TCA GTC AAA GTT CTT GGT TCT CAA AGT CT - #A CTG GTT GGT AGT TT           1221                                                                           - GGT TTC CAG ATA ATT ACT CAA CCC TGG CAA CT - #G AAG CAG AAT GAA AG           1269                                                                           - TAT GAT GGA CTA AGA AAT GCC TCT CTT GAA CC - #C CGA CAC CTT GAC TC           1317                                                                           - AGT AAC GAT CGT GAT CTA CTA GAT GAA ACT GA - #A ATG ATT GGA TCG AT           1365                                                                           - ATT ACG ACT CCA CCA CCA ACC CAT CCA AAA GG - #T GTC AAT GGG GGT TT           1413                                                                           - CTC CAA GAT CTA CCA ATT ATC GAG CCT ACG AC - #C GAA CCA TGC TTA GT           1461                                                                           - CAT ACA AAG ATC ATT GGG ATC GGA ACA GTA GT - #C GTT GTA TTT TTG TT           1509                                                                           - TTT ATT CTC ATA TCC CTA TGT GTT TAT ACT TG - #C GTT CTA CGA TCC CG           1557                                                                           - ATC GGT ATG GTA GAT CGC GCC TAT GTG AAA CA - #A GTA CGA TTT AAT TC           1605                                                                           - AAT CCA TCA TAT CAA CAG TTG ACA AGA TAC CC - #C CAA CCA TAA TAAACT           1654                                                                           - ATT AAATTTAATT AAAGTCTCAT ATGTGGGGCT GTGGGGACGA GGGGCTGTG - #G GGA           1711                                                                           - GAGGGG CTGTGGGGAC GAGGGGCTGT GGGGACGAGG GGCTGTGGGG ACGAGG - #GGCT            1768                                                                           - TGGGGACGA GGGGCTGTGG GGACGAGGGG CTGTGGGGAC GAGGGGCTGT GGG - #GACGA           1826                                                                           #TATGA      1883CGAGGGGCT GTGGGACGAT TACAACCGAT AAATGTCGTA                     - ATGTG GTGTTAACAT AACACGGATT TTTAAGCACA CCACATGACA CACCCCC - #ACG A           1940                                                                           - AACGGTTA AATCACCAGC TATGTGAACT GCCCTCCATT CTACTCAAAT GAGT - #GGTGG           1998                                                                           #CAT TTT TGG      2050T TTCGTCTA ATG ATG ACA CGT CTA                           - TGG TGT GGA ATC TTT GCG GTC CTG AAA TAT CT - #G GTA TGT ACT TCA AG           2098                                                                           - CTT ACG ACC ACG CCA AAA ACA ACT ACG GTT TA - #T GTG AAG GGA TTT AA           2146                                                                           - ATA CCT CCA CTA CGC TAC AAT TAT ACT CAA GC - #C AGA ATC GTG CCA AA           2194                                                                           - ATT CCC CAG GCG ATG GAT CCG AAG ATA ACA GC - #T GAA GTA CGT TAT GT           2242                                                                           - ACA TCA ATG GAT TCA TGT GGG ATG GTG GCA TT - #G ATA TCA GAG CCG GA           2290                                                                           - ATA GAC GCT ACT ATT CGA ACC ATA CAA CTA TC - #T CAA AAA AAA ACA TA           2338                                                                           - AAC GCG ACT ATA AGT TGG TTT AAG GTA ACC CA - #G GGT TGT GAA TAC CC           2386                                                                           - ATG TTT CTT ATG GAT ATG AGA CTT TGT GAT CC - #T AAA CGG GAA TTT GG           2434                                                                           - ATA TGT GCT TTA CGG TCG CCT TCA TAT TGG TT - #G GAA CCT TTA ACA AA           2482                                                                           - TAT ATG TTC CTA ACA GAC GAT GAA CTG GGT TT - #G ATT ATG ATG GCC CC           2530                                                                           - GCC CAA TTT AAT CAA GGA CAA TAT CGA AGA GT - #T ATA ACC ATC GAT GG           2578                                                                           - TCC ATG TTT TAT ACA GAT TTT ATG GTA CAA CT - #A TCT CCA ACG CCA TG           2626                                                                           - TGG TTC GCA AAA CCC GAT AGA TAC GAA GAG AT - #T CTA CAT GAA TGG TG           2674                                                                           - CGA AAT GTT AAA ACT ATT GGC CTT GAT GGA GC - #T CGT GAT TAC CAC TA           2722                                                                           - TAT TGG GTA CCC TAT AAC CCA CAA CCT CAC CA - #T AAA GCC GTA CTC TT           2770                                                                           - TAT TGG TAT CGG ACT CAT GGC CGA GAA CCC CC - #A GTA AGA TTC CAA GA           2818                                                                           - GCC ATT CGA TAT GAT CGT CCC GCC ATA CCG TC - #T GGG AGT GAG GAT TC           2866                                                                           - AAA CGG TCC AAC GAC TCT AGA GGA GAA TCG AG - #T GGA CCC AAT TGG AT           2914                                                                           - GAC ATT GAA AAT TAC ACT CCT AAA AAT AAT GT - #G CCT ATT ATA ATA TC           2962                                                                           - GAC GAT GAC GTT CCT ACA GCC CCT CCC AAG GG - #C ATG AAT AAT CAG TC           3010                                                                           - GTA GTG ATA CCC GCA ATC GTA CTA AGT TGT CT - #T ATA ATA GCA CTG AT           3058                                                                           - CTA GGA GTG ATA TAT TAT ATT TTG AGG GTA AA - #G AGG TCT CGA TCA AC           3106                                                                           - GCA TAT CAA CAA CTT CCT ATA ATA CAT ACA AC - #T CAC CAT CCT TAA GT           3154                                                                           - CACATTC CAATCGAGTT GGTAGGGAAG ATATGAAGTG GGCGGTACCA ACCAT - #CATAA           3211                                                                           - AATAGGTTGG AGTCTGGACC AACGTTCACT CTTTTGAGTG TAAAGGACCA CA - #GCATA           3269                                                                           - TA CTTAAT  ATG TCG TCG ATA GCC TTC ATC TAT - # ATA TTG ATG GCG ATT           3316                                                                           - GGA ACA GTT TAT GGG ATT GTG TAT CGT GGA GA - #T CAT GTA AGT CTT CA           3364                                                                           - GTT GAT ACA AGC TCC GGC TTT GTA ATA TAT CC - #A ACA CTG GAG AAT TT           3412                                                                           - ACG ATC TAC GGC CAT CTA ATC TTT CTC GAC GA - #C CAA CCA TTA CCA GT           3460                                                                           - AAC AAT TAT AAT GGA ACC CTC GAG ATT ATA CA - #T TAC AAC CAT CAC TC           3508                                                                           - TCT TGC TAT AAA ATC GTT CAA GTA ATA GAA TA - #T TCA TCA TGT CCA CG           3556                                                                           - GTA CGC AAT AAT GCT TTC CGG TCC TGT CTC CA - #C AAG ACC TCT ATG CA           3604                                                                           - CAT AAC GAT CAG CTT TCC ATA AAC ACA TCC GT - #T GAA ACG GGG ATG TT           3652                                                                           - TTG ACA ATA ACA TCT CCG AAA ATG GAA GAT GG - #T GGA ATC TAC GCA CT           3700                                                                           - CGG GTA AGA TTT AAC CAT AAT AAC AAA GCT GA - #T GTA TTT GGC CTT TC           3748                                                                           - GTG TTT GTT TAC TCA TTC GAT ACG CGT GGT CA - #T CGA CAT CAT GCG GA           3796                                                                           - GAA AAT TTG AAT GGT GAA ATT CTT ACT ACT CC - #A TCA CCG ATG GAA AC           3844                                                                           - TAT GTT AAA GTT AAC ACA CCA TAT GAA TAT CA - #T ATG GTG ACA ACT CA           3892                                                                           - ACA ACT TCT AAT AAA TCG ATG GAG TCT GAA CC - #A TCA AAT ACA TCA AT           3940                                                                           - TCA TGC CAT ACA TTT CAA AAT GAC CCG AAT GA - #G GGT GAG ACT TTA TA           3988                                                                           - ACA CAC TTA TTG AAC ATC GCT GGA AAT ATA AC - #A TAT GAT GAC ATG GT           4036                                                                           - ATG GAT GGC ACC ACA TTG AAA CCC AGA TTA AT - #C GAT ATG GGA CTT AA           4084                                                                           - TTG TCT GTT ACA TCT TCC TTT AAA AAT GGA AA - #C CAC GCA AAA ATG GA           4132                                                                           - ACC AGA CAG AAA GGT GGG TTT CTG TTA TAG TA - #A TCT AAT CGC AGT TT           4180                                                                           - ACT ACT CTT GCG GTC ATC GGA TCC ATC ATC AA - #T AGT GCA ATA CGC AA           4228                                                                           - CAT ATA ATG GTC TGT GCT GGG CGG CGG ATC TA - #T ATA CCA AAC AAC GA           4276                                                                           - GGG CGA CCA TCA ACG GAA ATG ACA CGG TTT AC - #T CGC CAG ACT AAA CC           4324                                                                           - TCG AAT TCC ACC CCA ACC GAT GGC GTC TCT AG - #A AGT CAG TTA ACC GT           4372                                                                           - ATT AAC GAA GAA ACC TAA TATATTTATA AACAAATAAA AT - #ACTTTTCA AAATG           4426                                                                           - ATAT CTGGTCATGT GTAATGTTGA CGCATAGTGG GTGGTGACCT AAGATTAT - #AT TA           4483                                                                           - AATGTAG AAGGTTTTAT GCCCAGTTCA CAGTATCTAC TGTGACCTAC CCCGG - #GGTGG           4540                                                                           #ACC ATC CTC      4592T AGCCAACA ATG GGA CTG CTT GTT                           - GTG ATA TTA TTG ATT GTT ACT TCA TCA AGT TC - #T ACT ATT CAT CAA GT           4640                                                                           - ACG ATG ACA GAA GGT GCC GCA CTT TTA GTC GA - #T GGG GAT GGG ATC GA           4688                                                                           - CCA CCT TTA AAC AAA ACT TCA CAT TTT TTG CG - #A GGT TGG ACA TTT CT           4736                                                                           - GAG ACT CCG AAA GGA TGT ACA GGA GAG GTG AG - #T GTT CTA AAA GTA TG           4784                                                                           - ATA GAT CGT GGG GTA TGT CCG GAT GAT ATC GT - #T ATA AAT AAG AGA TG           4832                                                                           - GGT CAC AAA ATG CTT GAA ACC CCA CTA GCG TT - #G GGC GAA TTT GGA AT           4880                                                                           - TCT AAT AGT TCT CTC ATC AGA ACC AAA GAC GT - #A TAT TTC GTG AAT AA           4928                                                                           - ACC GTG TTT CCA ATT CTC ACA CCC GAA AAA AG - #T GGC CTT GGT ATT CA           4976                                                                           - GGG GCC ACT ACG AAT ATA TCC GGG ATA TAT AC - #C CTG CAT GAG CAC GG           5024                                                                           - GAT AAT GGA TGG AGT CAT CAA TCT ACA TTT TT - #T GTG ACC GTA AAG GC           5072                                                                           - AAA CAT CCC GGA CCA TCG TTA ACC CCA GCA CC - #G GTT CAC TTA ATA AC           5120                                                                           - CCA CAT CGC CAT GGG GCA CAT TTC CAC GTA AG - #A AAC TAT CAT TCG CA           5168                                                                           - GTC TAC ATT CCG GGA GAT AAG TTC TTA TTA GA - #A ATG CAC CTC AAA TC           5216                                                                           - GAT ATC TAT GAT CCA GAA TTT TCA GCA ACA AT - #A GAC TGG TAT TTT AT           5264                                                                           - GAG ACT GAT ATA AAA TGC CCA GTT TTT AGA AT - #T TAT GAA ACT TGT AT           5312                                                                           - TTT CAC CCC CAT GCC GCA TCC TGT CTA CAT CC - #G GAA GAT CCC TCA TG           5360                                                                           - AGT TTT ACA TCA CCA CTT CGA GCG GTA TCT TT - #A ATT AAT AGA TTT TA           5408                                                                           - CCA AAA TGC GAT CAC AGA TAT GCC GAT TGG AC - #A TCC AGA TGT ATC AA           5456                                                                           - ACT CCA AGT ATA AAT CAT ATG CCA TAT ATC GA - #A CAG CCG GCC AAT AA           5504                                                                           - GTG GAT CTA AAG TTT ATC AAT GTA CCC ACC AA - #C GCT TCT GGG TTG TA           5552                                                                           - GTA TTC ATA CTT CGT TAT AAT GGA CAT CCG GA - #A GAA TGG ACC TAT AC           5600                                                                           - CTC ATA TCA ACA GGA GCT AAA TTT TTG AAT GT - #G ATT AGG GAT CTG AC           5648                                                                           - CGC CCA CGT CTT GGT AGT CAT CAA ATA GAG AC - #C GAT ATT AGC ACA TC           5696                                                                           - TCC GAG TCG CCT ACC ACG GAG ACA CCA CGA AA - #C ATA CAT ATA ACG TG           5744                                                                           - GCG AGA CGT TAT CTA AAG GTT ATC ATA GGA AT - #A ATT TGC GTA GCT GG           5792                                                                           - ATC CTT TTG ATT GTA ATC TCT ATC ACA TGT TA - #T ATT CGA TTT CGT CA           5840                                                                           - ATG CGA TAT AAA CCA TAT GAA GTG ATC AAC CC - #A TTC CCT GCG GTA TA           5888                                                                           - ACC AGC ATT CCT AGT AAC GAT CCC GAC GAA CT - #C TAC TTT GAA CGT AT           5936                                                                           - GCA TCG AAC GAC GAA GAA TCG GCA GAT GAT TC - #T TTT GAT GAA TCA GA           5984                                                                           - GAG GAG GAG CCA TTG AAT AAT CAT CAT ATT TC - #A ACA ACC CAA CAT AC           6032                                                                           - GAT ATT AAT CCA GAA AAA TCC GGA TCT GGG TA - #C AGT GTA TGG TTT CG           6080                                                                           - GAT ACA GAA GAT ACA TCA CCT CAG CCC CTA CA - #C GCT CCT CCA GAT TA           6128                                                                           - AGT CGC GTA GTT AAA AGA TTA AAG TCT ATT TT - #A AAA TGA CCC GTC GA           6176                                                                           - (2) INFORMATION FOR SEQ ID NO:7:                                             -      (i) SEQUENCE CHARACTERISTICS:                                                     (A) LENGTH: 70                                                                 (B) TYPE:  Amino Aci - #d                                                      (C) STRANDEDNESS: Single                                                       (D) TOPOLOGY:  Linear                                                -     (ii) MOLECULE TYPE:                                                                (A) DESCRIPTION: Polypepti - #de                                     -    (iii) HYPOTHETICAL:  No                                                   -     (iv) ANTI-SENSE:  No                                                     -     (vi) ORIGINAL SOURCE:                                                    #herpesvirus-1ORGANISM:  Feline                                                          (B) STRAIN:  1                                                       # C-27    (C) INDIVIDUAL ISOLATE:                                                        (G) CELL TYPE:  N/A                                                  -     (ix) FEATURE:                                                                      (A) NAME/KEY:                                                                  (B) LOCATION:                                                                  (C) IDENTIFICATION METHOD: - #  Deduced sequence                     # pK      (D) OTHER INFORMATION:                                               -     (xi) SEQUENCE DESCRIPTION: SEQ ID NO:7:                                  - Glu Phe Pro Gly Asp Pro Thr Ser Lys Leu Th - #r Ile Asp Phe Ile              #15                                                                            - Tyr Ala Ser Cys Val Arg Gln Pro Tyr Thr Ar - #g Tyr Asp Cys Met              #             30                                                               - Lys Tyr Asp Leu Pro Leu Asp Gly Glu Phe Va - #l Val His Lys Met              #         45                                                                   - Thr Phe Asp Ala Lys Phe Arg Pro Ser Ala Al - #a Glu Ile Leu Asn              #     60                                                                       - Pro Met Phe Arg Asp Thr                                                      # 70                                                                           - (2) INFORMATION FOR SEQ ID NO:8:                                             -      (i) SEQUENCE CHARACTERISTICS:                                                     (A) LENGTH: 435                                                                (B) TYPE:  Amino Aci - #d                                                      (C) STRANDEDNESS: Single                                                       (D) TOPOLOGY:  Linear                                                -     (ii) MOLECULE TYPE:                                                                (A) DESCRIPTION:                                                     -    (iii) HYPOTHETICAL:  No                                                   -     (iv) ANTI-SENSE:  No                                                     -     (vi) ORIGINAL SOURCE:                                                    #herpesvirus-1ORGANISM:  Feline                                                          (B) STRAIN:  1                                                       # C-27    (C) INDIVIDUAL ISOLATE:                                                        (G) CELL TYPE:  N/A                                                  -     (ix) FEATURE:                                                                      (A) NAME/KEY:                                                                  (B) LOCATION:                                                                  (C) IDENTIFICATION METHOD: - #  Deduced Sequence                     # gG      (D) OTHER INFORMATION:                                               -     (xi) SEQUENCE DESCRIPTION: SEQ ID NO:8:                                  #Met Gly Asn Arg IleHis                                                        #                 5                                                            - Ile Leu Ile Cys Ile Ala Ala Phe Tyr Ile Th - #r Ile Ala Ala Ala              #            20                                                                - Asn Ala Pro Met Asp Leu Cys Tyr Ala Asp Pr - #o Arg Asp Thr Ser              #            35                                                                - Gln Pro Ile Gly His Pro Asn Tyr Lys Gln Va - #l Asn Ile Thr Ile              #                50                                                            - Tyr Pro Ala Pro Lys Trp Gly Tyr Val Glu Hi - #s Ser Ser Gly Cys              #                70                                                            - Leu Arg Leu Leu Asp Pro Arg Val Asp Val Se - #r Leu Gln Asp His              #                 85                                                           - Arg Arg Ala Asp Ala Thr Ile Ala Trp Thr Ph - #e Asp Leu Gly Thr              #             100                                                              - Gln Ile Pro Ile Ala Tyr Arg Glu Tyr Tyr As - #n Cys Thr Gly Asn              #       115                                                                    - Ile Pro Ser Pro Glu Thr Cys Glu Gly Tyr Se - #r Ala Thr Ser Ile              #    130                                                                       - Phe Glu Gly Leu Thr Ile Tyr Thr Leu Val As - #n Ile Ser Leu Leu              135                 1 - #40                 1 - #45                 1 -        #50                                                                            - Gln Pro Gly Ile Phe Asp Ser Gly Ser Phe Le - #u Tyr Ser Phe Ile              #                165                                                           - Gly Gln Asn Arg Tyr Asn Gly Arg Ile Ile Va - #l His Val Glu Lys              #            180                                                               - Thr Asp Tyr Pro Cys Lys Met Tyr His Gly Le - #u Met Ala Pro Phe              #        195                                                                   - His His Pro Gln Ser His Val Glu Thr Pro As - #n Asp Lys Asn His              #    210                                                                       - Arg Gly Arg Gly Cys Phe Pro Glu Leu Val Gl - #u Pro Val Leu Trp              215                 2 - #20                 2 - #25                 2 -        #30                                                                            - Asn Ile Ser Ser Asp Leu Ile Gly Gly Pro Pr - #o Phe Asp Tyr Asn              #               245                                                            - Glu Asp Glu Ala Asp Ile Glu Ser Asp Glu Le - #u Pro Glu Glu Ile              #           260                                                                - Ile Thr Thr Gln Ile Val Val Arg Leu Ile Cy - #s Leu Phe Arg Glu              #       275                                                                    - Pro Ser Val Lys Val Leu Gly Ser Gln Ser Le - #u Leu Val Gly Ser              #   290                                                                        - Gly Phe Gln Ile Ile Thr Gln Pro Trp Gln Le - #u Lys Gln Asn Glu              295                 3 - #00                 3 - #05                 3 -        #10                                                                            - Tyr Asp Gly Leu Arg Asn Ala Ser Leu Glu Pr - #o Arg His Leu Asp              #               325                                                            - Ser Asn Asp Arg Asp Leu Leu Asp Glu Thr Gl - #u Met Ile Gly Ser              #           340                                                                - Ile Thr Thr Pro Pro Pro Thr His Pro Lys Gl - #y Val Asn Gly Gly              #       355                                                                    - Leu Gln Asp Leu Pro Ile Ile Glu Pro Thr Th - #r Glu Pro Cys Leu              #   370                                                                        - His Thr Lys Ile Ile Gly Ile Gly Thr Val Va - #l Val Val Phe Leu              375                 3 - #80                 3 - #85                 3 -        #90                                                                            - Phe Ile Leu Ile Ser Leu Cys Val Tyr Thr Cy - #s Val Leu Arg Ser              #               405                                                            - Ile Gly Met Val Asp Arg Ala Tyr Val Lys Gl - #n Val Arg Phe Asn              #           420                                                                - Asn Pro Ser Tyr Gln Gln Leu Thr Arg Tyr Pr - #o Gln Pro                      #       435                                                                    - (2) INFORMATION FOR SEQ ID NO:9:                                             -      (i) SEQUENCE CHARACTERISTICS:                                                     (A) LENGTH: 373                                                                (B) TYPE:  Amino Aci - #d                                                      (C) STRANDEDNESS: Single                                                       (D) TOPOLOGY:  Linear                                                -     (ii) MOLECULE TYPE:                                                                (A) DESCRIPTION: Polypepti - #de                                     -    (iii) HYPOTHETICAL:  No                                                   -     (iv) ANTI-SENSE:  No                                                     -     (vi) ORIGINAL SOURCE:                                                    #herpesvirus-1ORGANISM:  Feline                                                          (B) STRAIN:  1                                                       # C-27    (C) INDIVIDUAL ISOLATE:                                                        (G) CELL TYPE:  N/A                                                  -     (ix) FEATURE:                                                                      (A) NAME/KEY:                                                                  (B) LOCATION:                                                                  (C) IDENTIFICATION METHOD: - #  Deduced Sequence                     # gD      (D) OTHER INFORMATION:                                               #SEQ ID NO:9:i) SEQUENCE DESCRIPTION:                                          #Met Thr Arg Leu His Phe Trp                                                   #5                                                                             #Phe Ala Val Leu Lys Tyr Leu Val Cys Thr S - #er S                             # 20                                                                           #Pro Lys Thr Thr Thr Val Tyr Val Lys Gly P - #he A                             #               35                                                             #Arg Tyr Asn Tyr Thr Gln Ala Arg Ile Val P - #ro L                             #           55                                                                 #Met Asp Pro Lys Ile Thr Ala Glu Val Arg T - #yr V                             #         70                                                                   #Ser Cys Gly Met Val Ala Leu Ile Ser Glu P - #ro A                             #     85                                                                       #Ile Arg Thr Ile Gln Leu Ser Gln Lys Lys T - #hr T                             # 100                                                                          #Ser Trp Phe Lys Val Thr Gln Gly Cys Glu T - #yr P                             #              115                                                             #Asp Met Arg Leu Cys Asp Pro Lys Arg Glu P - #he G                             #          135                                                                 #Arg Ser Pro Ser Tyr Trp Leu Glu Pro Leu T - #hr L                             #         150                                                                  #Thr Asp Asp Glu Leu Gly Leu Ile Met Met A - #la P                             #     165                                                                      -             Ala Gln Phe Asn - # Gln Gly Gln Tyr Arg Arg Val Ile Thr Ile      #Asp                                                                           #  180                                                                         -             Ser Met Phe Tyr - # Thr Asp Phe Met Val Gln Leu Ser Pro Thr      #Pro                                                                           #               195                                                            -             Trp Phe Ala Lys - # Pro Asp Arg Tyr Glu Glu Ile Leu His Glu      #Trp                                                                           #           215                                                                -             Arg Asn Val Lys - # Thr Ile Gly Leu Asp Gly Ala Arg Asp Tyr      #His                                                                           #          230                                                                 -             Tyr Trp Val Pro - # Tyr Asn Pro Gln Pro His His Lys Ala Val      #Leu                                                                           #     245                                                                      -             Tyr Trp Tyr Arg - # Thr His Gly Arg Glu Pro Pro Val Arg Phe      #Gln                                                                           #  260                                                                         -             Ala Ile Arg Tyr - # Asp Arg Pro Ala Ile Pro Ser Gly Ser Glu      #Asp                                                                           #               275                                                            #Asp Ser Arg Gly Glu Ser Ser Gly Pro Asn T - #rp I                             #          295                                                                 #Tyr Thr Pro Lys Asn Asn Val Pro Ile Ile I - #le S                             #         310                                                                  #Pro Thr Ala Pro Pro Lys Gly Met Asn Asn G - #ln S                             #     325                                                                      #Ala Ile Val Leu Ser Cys Leu Ile Ile Ala L - #eu I                             # 340                                                                          #Tyr Tyr Ile Leu Arg Val Lys Arg Ser Arg S - #er T                             #              355                                                             #Leu Pro Ile Ile His Thr Thr His His Pro                                       #          370                                                                 - (2) INFORMATION FOR SEQ ID NO:10:                                            -      (i) SEQUENCE CHARACTERISTICS:                                                     (A) LENGTH: 370                                                                (B) TYPE:  Amino Aci - #d                                                      (C) STRANDEDNESS: Single                                                       (D) TOPOLOGY:  Linear                                                -     (ii) MOLECULE TYPE:                                                                (A) DESCRIPTION: Polypepti - #de                                     -    (iii) HYPOTHETICAL:  No                                                   -     (iv) ANTI-SENSE:  No                                                     -     (vi) ORIGINAL SOURCE:                                                    #herpesvirus-1ORGANISM:  Feline                                                          (B) STRAIN:  1                                                       # C-27    (C) INDIVIDUAL ISOLATE:                                                        (G) CELL TYPE:  N/A                                                  -     (ix) FEATURE:                                                                      (A) NAME/KEY:                                                                  (B) LOCATION:                                                                  (C) IDENTIFICATION METHOD: - #  Deduced Sequence                     # gI      (D) OTHER INFORMATION:                                               #SEQ ID NO:10:) SEQUENCE DESCRIPTION:                                          -             Met Ser Ser Ile - # Ala Phe Ile Tyr Ile Leu Met Ala Ile          #           10                                                                 -             Gly Thr Val Tyr - # Gly Ile Val Tyr Arg Gly Asp His Val Ser      #Leu                                                                           #                25                                                            -             Val Asp Thr Ser - # Ser Gly Phe Val Ile Tyr Pro Thr Leu Glu      #Asn                                                                           #            45                                                                -             Thr Ile Tyr Gly - # His Leu Ile Phe Leu Asp Asp Gln Pro Leu      #Pro                                                                           #          60                                                                  -             Asn Asn Tyr Asn - # Gly Thr Leu Glu Ile Ile His Tyr Asn His      #His                                                                           #      75                                                                      -             Ser Cys Tyr Lys - # Ile Val Gln Val Ile Glu Tyr Ser Ser Cys      #Pro                                                                           #  90                                                                          -             Val Arg Asn Asn - # Ala Phe Arg Ser Cys Leu His Lys Thr Ser      #Met                                                                           #                105                                                           -             Gln Tyr Asp Gln - # Leu Ser Ile Asn Thr Ser Val Glu Thr Gly      #Met                                                                           #           125                                                                -             Leu Thr Ile Thr - # Ser Pro Lys Met Glu Asp Gly Gly Ile Tyr      #Ala                                                                           #          140                                                                 -             Arg Val Arg Phe - # Asn His Asn Asn Lys Ala Asp Val Phe Gly      #Leu                                                                           #      155                                                                     -             Val Phe Val Tyr - # Ser Phe Asp Thr Arg Gly His Arg His His      #Ala                                                                           # 170                                                                          -             Glu Asn Leu Asn - # Gly Glu Ile Leu Thr Thr Pro Ser Pro Met      #Glu                                                                           #               185                                                            -             Tyr Val Lys Val - # Asn Thr Pro Ile Tyr Asp His Met Val Thr      #Thr                                                                           #           205                                                                -             Thr Thr Ser Asn - # Lys Ser Met Glu Ser Glu Pro Ser Asn Thr      #Ser                                                                           #          220                                                                 -             Ser Cys His Thr - # Phe Gln Asn Asp Pro Asn Glu Gly Glu Thr      #Leu                                                                           #      235                                                                     -             Thr His Leu Leu - # Asn Ile Ala Gly Asn Ile Thr Tyr Asp Asp      #Met                                                                           #  250                                                                         -             Met Asp Gly Thr - # Thr Leu Lys Pro Arg Leu Ile Asp Met Gly      #Leu                                                                           #               265                                                            -             Leu Ser Val Thr - # Ser Ser Phe Lys Asn Gly Asn His Ala Lys      #Met                                                                           #           285                                                                -             Thr Arg Gln Lys - # Gly Gly Phe Cys Tyr Ser Asn Leu Asn Arg      #Ser                                                                           #          300                                                                 -             Thr Thr Leu Ala - # Val Ile Gly Ser Ile Ile Asn Ser Ala Ile      #Arg                                                                           #      315                                                                     -             His Ile Met Val - # Cys Ala Gly Arg Arg Ile Tyr Ile Pro Asn      #Asn                                                                           #  330                                                                         -             Gly Arg Pro Ser - # Thr Glu Met Thr Arg Phe Thr Arg Gln Thr      #Lys                                                                           #               345                                                            -             Ser Asn Ser Thr - # Pro Thr Asp Gly Val Ser Arg Ser Gln Leu      #Thr                                                                           #           365                                                                #Thr         Ile Asn Glu Glu                                                   #         370                                                                  - (2) INFORMATION FOR SEQ ID NO:11:                                            -      (i) SEQUENCE CHARACTERISTICS:                                                     (A) LENGTH: 532                                                                (B) TYPE:  Amino Aci - #d                                                      (C) STRANDEDNESS: Single                                                       (D) TOPOLOGY:  Linear                                                -     (ii) MOLECULE TYPE:                                                                (A) DESCRIPTION: Polypepti - #de                                     -    (iii) HYPOTHETICAL:  No                                                   -     (iv) ANTI-SENSE:  No                                                     -     (vi) ORIGINAL SOURCE:                                                    #herpesvirus-1ORGANISM:  Feline                                                          (B) STRAIN:  1                                                       # C-27    (C) INDIVIDUAL ISOLATE:                                                        (G) CELL TYPE:  N/A                                                  -     (ix) FEATURE:                                                                      (A) NAME/KEY:                                                                  (B) LOCATION:                                                                  (C) IDENTIFICATION METHOD: - #  Deduced Sequence                     # gE      (D) OTHER INFORMATION:                                               #SEQ ID NO:11:) SEQUENCE DESCRIPTION:                                          -             Met Gly Leu Leu - # Val Thr Ile Leu                              #          5                                                                   #Ile Val Thr Ser Ser Ser Ser Thr Ile His G - #ln V                             #               20                                                             #Gly Ala Ala Leu Leu Val Asp Gly Asp Gly I - #le A                             #            40                                                                #Lys Thr Ser His Phe Leu Arg Gly Trp Thr P - #he L                             #         55                                                                   #Gly Cys Thr Gly Glu Val Ser Val Leu Lys V - #al C                             #     70                                                                       #Val Cys Pro Asp Asp Ile Val Ile Asn Lys A - #rg C                             # 85                                                                           #Leu Glu Thr Pro Leu Ala Leu Gly Glu Phe G - #ly I                             #               100                                                            #Leu Ile Arg Thr Lys Asp Val Tyr Phe Val A - #sn L                             #          120                                                                 #Ile Leu Thr Pro Glu Lys Ser Gly Leu Gly I - #le G                             #         135                                                                  #Asn Ile Ser Gly Ile Tyr Thr Leu His Glu H - #is G                             #     150                                                                      #Ser His Gln Ser Thr Phe Phe Val Thr Val L - #ys A                             # 165                                                                          #Pro Ser Leu Thr Pro Ala Pro Val His Leu I - #le T                             #              180                                                             #Gly Ala His Phe His Val Arg Asn Tyr His S - #er H                             #          200                                                                 #Gly Asp Lys Phe Leu Leu Glu Met His Leu L - #ys S                             #         215                                                                  #Pro Glu Phe Ser Ala Thr Ile Asp Trp Tyr P - #he M                             #     230                                                                      #Lys Cys Pro Val Phe Arg Ile Tyr Glu Thr C - #ys I                             # 245                                                                          #Ala Ala Ser Cys Leu His Pro Glu Asp Pro S - #er C                             #              260                                                             #Pro Leu Arg Ala Val Ser Leu Ile Asn Arg P - #he T                             #          280                                                                 #His Arg Tyr Ala Asp Trp Thr Ser Arg Cys I - #le A                             #         295                                                                  #Asn His Met Pro Tyr Ile Glu Gln Pro Ala A - #sn A                             #     310                                                                      #Phe Ile Asn Val Pro Thr Asn Ala Ser Gly L - #eu T                             # 325                                                                          #Arg Tyr Asn Gly His Pro Glu Glu Trp Thr T - #yr T                             #              340                                                             #Gly Ala Lys Phe Leu Asn Val Ile Arg Asp L - #eu T                             #          360                                                                 #Gly Ser His Gln Ile Glu Thr Asp Ile Ser T - #hr S                             #         375                                                                  #Thr Thr Glu Thr Pro Arg Asn Ile His Ile T - #hr T                             #     390                                                                      #Leu Lys Val Ile Ile Gly Ile Ile Cys Val A - #la G                             # 405                                                                          #Val Ile Ser Ile Thr Cys Tyr Ile Arg Phe A - #rg H                             #              420                                                             -             Met Arg Tyr Lys - # Pro Tyr Glu Asn Val Ile Pro Phe Pro Ala      #Val                                                                           #           440                                                                -             Thr Ser Ile Pro - # Ser Asn Asp Pro Asp Glu Leu Tyr Phe Glu      #Arg                                                                           #          455                                                                 -             Ala Ser Asn Asp - # Glu Glu Ser Ala Asp Asp Ser Phe Asp Glu      #Ser                                                                           #      470                                                                     -             Glu Glu Glu Pro - # Leu Asn Asn His His Ile Ser Thr Thr Gln      #His                                                                           #  485                                                                         -             Asp Ile Asn Pro - # Glu Lys Ser Gly Ser Gly Tyr Ser Val Trp      #Phe                                                                           #               500                                                            -             Asp Thr Glu Asp - # Thr Ser Pro Gln Pro Leu His Ala Pro Pro      #Asp                                                                           #           520                                                                -             Ser Arg Val Val - # Lys Arg Leu Lys Ser Ile Leu Lys              #          530                                                                 __________________________________________________________________________ 

We claim:
 1. A recombinant raccoon poxvirus containing and expressing a first gene encoding the feline herpesvirus gD glycoprotein precursor polypeptide as set forth in SEQ ID NO: 9 wherein the first gene is inserted into a second gene encoding thymidine kinase of the raccoon poxvirus.
 2. A recombinant raccoon poxvirus containing and expressing a first gene encoding a gD glycoprotein precursor polypeptide from a feline herpesvirus, said gene containing nucleic acid sequence SEQ ID NO:2 wherein the first gene is inserted into a second gene encoding thymidine kinase of the raccoon poxvirus.
 3. The recombinant raccoon poxvirus of any one of claims 1 or 2 with a gene encoding a gB precursor peptide as set forth in SEQ ID NO:4 is inserted into the second gene in addition to the gene encoding gD.
 4. A vaccine which comprises:a recombinant raccoon poxvirus containing and expressing a first gene encoding the feline herpesvirus gD glycoprotein precursor polypeptide as set forth in SEQ ID NO: 9 wherein the first gene is inserted into a second gene encoding thymidine kinase of the raccoon poxvirus.
 5. The vaccine of claim 4 containing between about 10³ and 10⁷ PFU (Plaque Forming Units) of the recombinant poxvirus per dosage.
 6. A vaccine which comprises a recombinant raccoon poxvirus containing a first genes from a feline herpesvirus encoding a gD glycoprotein precursor polypeptide and having the nucleic acid sequence as set forth in SEQ ID NO:2 wherein the first gene is inserted into a second gene encoding thymidine kinase of the raccoon poxvirus, which polypeptide is expressed by the poxvirus.
 7. The vaccine of claim 6 containing between about 10³ and 10⁷ PFU (Plaque Forming Units) of the recombinant poxvirus per dosage.
 8. The vaccine of any one of claims 4 or 6 with a gene encoding a gB precursor peptide as set forth in SEQ ID NO:4 is inserted into the second gene in addition to the gene encoding gD.
 9. A method for inhibiting feline viral rhinotracheitis (FVR) in felines which comprises: vaccinating the feline with a recombinant raccoon poxvirus containing and expressing a gene encoding the feline herpesvirus gD glycoprotein precursor polypeptide as set forth in SEQ ID NO: 9 wherein the first gene is inserted into a second gene encoding thymidine kinase of the raccoon poxvirus.
 10. The method of claim 9 wherein poxvirus is a live vaccine.
 11. The method of claim 10 wherein the vaccine contains 10³ to 10⁷ PFU (Plaque Forming Units) of the poxvirus per dosage.
 12. A method for inhibiting feline viral rhinotracheitis (FVR) in felines which comprises:vaccinating the feline with a feline raccoon poxvirus containing a first gene encoding a gD glycoprotein precursor polypeptide and having the nucleic acid sequence as set forth in SEQ ID NO:2 which is expressed by the poxvirus to vaccinate against FVR, wherein the first gene is inserted into a second gene encoding thymidine kinase of the raccoon poxvirus.
 13. The method of claim 12 wherein the poxvirus is a live vaccine.
 14. The method of claim 13 wherein the vaccine contains 10³ to 10⁷ PFU (Plaque Forming Units) of the poxvirus per dosage.
 15. The method of any one of claims 9 or 12 with a gene encoding a gB precursor peptide as set forth in SEQ ID NO:4 is inserted into the second gene in addition to the gene encoding gD. 